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101: Robert Holland

Rape

Robert Holland, Republican, was Chairman of the Bedminster Township Supervisors. His day job was the head groundskeeper at a local nursing home where he raped a 92-year-old woman with dementia. He claimed it was consensual, though a woman with dementia cannot consent. He was convicted. The Morning Call: Bucks official charged in sex attack on…

96: Lawrence Scott Ward

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Trafficking

Lawrence Scott Ward was an Ivy League professor at Harvard Business School and later at Wharton. He was hired by major companies as a consultant making him a rich man. He was the Chairman of the Marketing Department at University of Pennsylvania. He also founded a nonprofit called the Rebound Foundation which included faculty and students at Penn, in order to help “troubled kids.” It was easy access for Ward to exploit and abuse these kids and he took full advantage of it.

90: Joseph McDade

Indecent Exposure

Joseph McDade was a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1962 to 1998. In 2007, he was charged with indecent exposure after masturbating and exposing himself to people at a hotel. Naples Daily News: Former PA congressman to be arraigned for indecent exposure Pocono Record: Former Congressman McDade charged with exposing himself

66: Stephen Aiken

Uncategorized

Rev. Stephen Aiken was the founder of the YouthQuest Christian counseling agency. Two girls who came to him for help were molested by him. He was charged with two counts of corrupting a minor and convicted. The jury deadlocked on indecent assault. His denials rested on his claim that as a religious leader he had…

60: John R. Curtin

Child Indecency, Child Molestation

John R. Curtin was a Republican committeeman when he hosted a beer party at a Stroudsburg, PA, motel and invited a 17-year-old young man and three boys aged 13 to 20 to drink beer. The seventeen-year-old got drunk and went out for a cigarette and Curtin followed him out, pulled down his pants, and molested…

40: Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr went on a camping trip with his best friend and raped his best friend’s fifteen-year-old daughter after getting her drunk. He was a Republican member of the Wrightsvulle Borough Council and was asked to resign after he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to six months in prison and six months…

39: Rev. Stephen David Rambler

Child Molestation, Sexual Misconduct

Stephen David Rambler was the pastor of Wrightsville’s Church on the Rock, a successful growing ministry until he got into legal trouble on two fronts. The feds were investigating him for extortion, using the US mail no less. He placed ads in adult magazines soliciting photos that he then used to extort the person who…

28: Rev. Craig Stephen White

Solicitation of a Minor

Rev. C. Stephen White, more commonly known as “Brother Stephen.” preached against Muslims, LGBTIQA people, and other things deemed sinful by the hardline evangelical right. He often focused on ministering to youth, organizing basketball games and even dressing up as Caleb the Clown. He also had an active campus ministry. He was arrested after asking…

8: Mark Pazuhanich

Child Molestation

Mark Pazuhanich of Pennsylvania was a District Attorney who had just been elected judge when he was charged with fondling a 10-year-old girl (his daughter) in the crowd of a concert. A woman witnessed it and told security, who detained Pazuhanich. He was charged with public drunkenness but later charged with indecent assault. His daughter…