Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Joshua Dane Wells was a part-time deputy and foster parent. He also was podcasting with two other people a Pentecostal podcast called PenteTalks has been charged with inappropriate sexual conduct with minors. A concerned parent notified police about his sexual conduct with a 15-year-old minor.
Michael Paustian was the creative director of Group Publishing, a religious publishing house that created curriculum for churches. Group Publishing specializes in “creating experiences that bring Children, Youth, and Adults into a closer relationship with Jesus,” which includes curriculum for “vacation Bible school, ministry resources, Sunday school resources, children’s resources, adult resources, and women’s ministry resources.”
Jerry Dan Heflin was a deacon at Unity Baptist Church in Sylvester, Georgia. He was arrested on May 7th and charged with more than 60 felony counts, including child molestation, aggravated sodomy, sexual battery against a child and incest.
Paul Rytting is the Director of Risk Management at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He’s very good at protecting the Church from accountability for its bishops and leadership sexually abusing children.
John Goodrich was a dentist and bishop of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS.) He made a public confession to sexually assaulting his daughter in his church. He was excommunicated. Following his confession, his daugher and her mother made a complaint alleging years of sexual abuse to police in Idaho in 2016. However, his “spiritual confession” could not be used in court and the police did nothing.
However, he is alleged to have sexually assaulted her on a 1999 field trip when she was thirteen. The trip was to Washington, DC, and to Williamsburg, VA, where the famous Colonial Williamsburg draws hundreds of field trips each year. It was in Virginia where Goodrich was finally indicted.
David Wakefield was the athletic director and principal of Damascus Christian School in Damascus, Oregon. He has been accused of sexually abusing a minor, a student in his school for four years, beginning when she was fourteen.
Rhett Hintze was the COO at Bravo Group, a lobbying and marketing firm. He was also a stake president for several LDS churches in Pennsylvania, including where Shawn Gooden was a church leader. He has been charged with knowing about Gooden’s assaults and not reporting them. His church position makes him a mandatory reporter, obligated to report abuse. The LDS church, after similar cases in other states, has taken the position that church leaders are prohibited from reporting. Their position is that “everything that President Hintze did was fully approved by the church.”
John Justin McCall was a worship leader at Grace River Community Church until he was arrested in October 11, 2023, for trying to solicit a minor online. The pastor said they did a background check and interviewed former employers. He worked at Ark Encounter, a creationist theme park
Newton Crenshaw is the President and CEO of Young Life Ministries, a ministry with nearly a half billion in receipts and over a third of a billion in assets. It has been sued by people alleging they were sexually abused or harassed by Young Life employees and the response has been to cover up rather than root out the problem.
Three former leaders of International House of Prayer released a public statement on October 28th, 2023, that asked the organization to address the several long-standing allegations of sexual misconduct by Mike Bickle, what they referred to as the “collective and corroborating testimony of several victims.”