Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
In June, 2023, he was charged with six counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact. These charges allege the abuse continued over eleven years. In May, 2024, he was convicted on all six counts and has been sentenced to 42 years in prison, about half what the jury recommended. He is 79. He could get parole in 21 years when he is 100 years old.
Russell Jon Tusing II was the pastor at extremely conservative Sovereign Grace Church of LaGrange in Troup County, Georgia. Like many extreme conservatives, he reflexively calls people who disagree with him unchristian and communist. When Aaron Bushnell, the Air Force serviceman set himself on fire in protest of Israel-Hamas war, he called him a godless communist. He was suspended in March 2024, after his arrest for molesting a 13-year-old girl. His daughter.
Barry Fike was a pastor at Fillmore Church of Christ and taught at Oaks Christian High School and Pepperdine University. He was arrested in July 2023 after being caught in a sting with a law enforcement officer posing as an underage girl. He sent lewd photos of himself and had sexual online conversations with someone he believed was a minor and arranged to meet for sex. He was charged with felony communicating with a child with the intent to commit a sexual act, and arranging a meeting with a minor for a lewd purpose. Fike. He pleaded not guilty at the time.
In 2024, the police have five former altar boys who have come forward and the statute of limitations has changed to reflect the fact that most people do not report they were abused as children until far into adulthood. Only 8% of victims report within a year.
Randy Saylor was an Associate Pastor at Living Word Church in Midland, Michigan, one of Trump-supporting televangelist Mark Barclay’s network.
He has been charged with Criminal Sexual Conduct with a person under the age of thirteen.
David Love is a retired police officer from Radcliff, Kentucky. He was arrested for raping a child under the age of fourteen. Unfortunately, some in the media called it a relationship which is a gross failing on their part. He appears very bruised in his mug shot but he told the judge that it was due to chemotherapy.
Monte LaVelle Chitty was the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Marathon, Florida. He had ministered in churches in 25 other states. In early March, he was arrested for drugging and sexually assaulting a minor. He was released on $75,000 bond and skipped town.
Jeffrey Duncan was the Assistant Pastor at Mount Calvary Lutheran church in Omaha. He was removed from the roster as noted here. Strangely, they did not mention that he had been arrested, charged with sexually assaulting a minor child.
Marvin Leroy Mosley was the pastor of the Lehighton God’s Missionary Church, a conservative evangelical denomination. In 2003, he became pastor of God’s Missionary Church in Penns Creek. There was no parsonage, so a local family invited Mosley and his wife to live with them.
He repaid their generosity by sexually assaulting their grandaughter from the time she was seven until she was about fifteen. He then moved on to her younger sister and after her, her youngest sister. He assaulted the three sisters over the course of fifteen years.
William Keith Dodd was the lead pastor at Lewark Church of God in Coffeyville, Kansas. The church had a website, but it has been removed.
In September, 2023, Dodd was arrested and charged with two counts of rape of a child younger than fourteen.