Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Fred Gammon of Miami, Oklahoma, is the pastor of Wayside Assembly of God church in Wyandotte. He is accused of sending inappropriate sexual texts to a child and sexually abusing her. His wife told police that he now had a different view of the child and was being tested by god and that he asked her forgiveness and she gave it. He is charged with child sexual abuse.
Tony Ernest Bunton was a pastor in Statesville, NC when he was arrested in September 2021 for possession of child sexual abuse material. After he was released on bond, he was arrested again in October for possession of even more CSAM, some with infants.
Richard E. Jacklin was an Illinois Catholic priest at St. Mary Immaculate Parish whose bulletins are full of denunciations of secular and liberal government. He was arrested in 2017 after a nurse walked in and caught him performing oral sex on a patient. He argued in his defense that the patient forced him to do it. The patient was partially paralyzed and had an IQ of 47.
According to 4029 News, “The man said Hartman played mind games and manipulated him into sex because Hartman knew the man didn’t have anywhere else to go. He said he felt trapped because he was on probation. He said he was afraid Hartman could call the bail bondsman and have his bond revoked.”
John Blanchard is the pastor of Rock Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is an ardent Trump supporter who editorialized on behalf of Trump. He remains the pastor despite his 2021 arrest for soliciting a minor. He was talking to an undercover officer. He was told he was meeting for sex with a 17-year-old girl. He arrived at the spot with money for the transaction and was arrested by the police.
Rafael Cuevas was the pastor of Temple of Prayer Assembly of God church, a church his father built with his own hands. In 2021, he was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a child under the age of twelve from 2017 to 2020. His official charges were two counts of sexual battery and six counts of lewd and lascivious molestation against a victim under 12 years old.
Garrett Biggerstaff was the pastor of Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Fairfield and a Trump supporter. He is also charged with grooming children.
Dean Alan Smith was the pastor at Morning Star Baptist Church on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. In December 2022, he was arrested for the sexual abuse of four girls, three of them under age twelve between 2017 and 2019. He pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse, one count of abusive sexual contact and three counts of abusive sexual contact by force and of a child.
Jerry Dale Carver was the minister of education at an Austin, Texas, Baptist church. In 2006, he was arrested for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old child. According to the arrest affidavit, he picked up a 15-year-old boy at a bus stop, began a sexual conversation, touched the boy. When the boy tried to get out of the car, he drove to a park and sexually assaulted him.
Ruben A. Garcia was an associate pastor at Betania Baptist Church in Austin, Texas. He was arrested in 2017 for sexually assaulting two children. He was charged with two counts of sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact. When he was arrested for one investigation, they discovered there was a warrant for his arrest for another investigation in another county into child sexual assault.