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939: Brian Stout

Menacing, Sexual Assault

Brian Stout is a Republican state representative in Oregon. A woman who was active in the Columbia County Republican Party alleged that Stout aggressively pursued her sexually with her consent to kissing and touching each other. But he pushed her and tried to rape her. His wife walked in on them before he raped her.

927: Jon Courson

Sexual Misconduct

Jon Courson was the pastor of Applegate Christian Fellowship. He abused his position to pursue a relationship with an employee and parishioner who subsequently left her job and her church. She told the pastor of the Medford Christian Fellowship, her new church, who arranged a meeting with her and an elder of Applegate. The other elders were informed but did nothing to discipline Courson.

926: Ben Courson

Sexual Misconduct

Ben Courson is a megachurch pastor who resigned from his church when it was revealed that he abused his position as pastor to pursue sexual relationships with women. One woman accused him of aggressively seeking a sexual relationship, forcibly kissing and touching her but she fought him off and got away. Two other women had sexual relationships that they acquiesced to, in part because he assured them that since he did not preach about sex, it was okay. Additionally, it wasn’t technically adultery, he claimed, as he masturbated and ejaculated on the women.

925: Donald Courtney Biggs

Nonconsensual Recording

Donald Courtney Biggs was youth pastor at Mountain Church in Medford, Oregon. He was arrested for burglary and invasion of a woman’s privacy. The police began investigating him as a result of inappropriate messages, texting to a 14-year-old girl he met through his church youth program. In the course of investigation, they discovered he had videotaped a woman undressing without her knowledge and consent. Then it was discovered he also secretly recorded minors.

920: Peter Bass

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Peter Bass was youth pastor at Brooks Assembly of God. Brooks is an unincorporated community north of Salem, Oregon. He was accused of repeatedly raping an underage girl. The police said he did not know her through church.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 33 years in prison plus 46 years and 8 months of post-prison supervision and registry as a sex offended.

908: Robert Lee West

Assault, Rape

Robert Lee West is a member of Patriot Prayer. He ran into trouble in Portland by doxxing police and city officials, filming their homes, and even threatening to film their children. West is a convicted sex offender. In 1984, he was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape, sodomy, or oral copulation. He was sentenced to seven years.

904: Jarl Rockhill

Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Sexual Misconduct

Jarl Rockhill, a member of Patriot Prayer, who pled guilty to a hate crime attack on IRCO, a Portland immigrant center. He is also a convicted sex offender. Jarl was charged with Sexual Abuse in the First Degree in 2002, and with Using a Child in a Display of Sexually Explicit conduct in 2003. He…

872: Alek Skarlatos

Rape Culture

An interview he did in 2018 did not help his campaigns. In it he made several jokes about women including laughing about women being killed during sex, saying he’s thought about it himself. He made a tasteless joke mocking the death of a woman, not a hypothetical, but an actual woman. He also likes to like pictures of underage girls on Instagram.

752: Lou Nakapalau

Child Sexual Abuse Material

The incident got national attention and regional media did some basic research on Nakapalau and discovered he had been convicted of nine counts of possession child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in 2000. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail though he spent 52 on work release. He had a further five years probation.