Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Gareth Reece Goode was a music school owner and the Praise and Music Director at his fundamentalist church in Boerne, Texas. Their school uses the anti-science Abeka curriculum and they promote homophobia and misogyny. In January 2023, he was arrested for aggravated sexual assault of a child, indecency with a child and harassment.
Jason Kennedy was the principal of Liberty Christian Academy in Athens, Tennessee. In August 2022, he was charged with sexual assault by an authority figure and solicitation of a minor. The allegations were made by a nineteen-year-old girl who claimed she was underage at the time and a student at the Academy.
Abbott was arrested in North Carolina in January, 2023, and brought to Blount County, Tennessee, for arraignment. The family originally went to the police in June. He was arrested for sexually abusing a fourteen-year-old girl. The charge of sexual battery by an authority figure is used against defendants who use their job or legal status to take advantage of their victim, or have parental or custodial authority.
Robert Morris was the Assistant Dean of Wave Leadership College, a Christian college for pastors that closed in 2022. WLC was so conservative it partnered with Choices Pregnancy Center, a fake clinic. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison for possessing more than 500 child sexual abuse materials. Before that, he was kicked out of the Navy for misconduct and sexual harassment.
Sergio David Bezerra was a piano teacher at Waco Baptist Academy in Texas. In 2014, he was charged with sexually abusing two nine-year-old students going back to 2007. Four young women testified that he molested them when they were students. Another reported that he made inappropriate sexual advances toward. Then another two students reported that he molested them.
David Wayne Pendley was a teacher at Faith Lutheran, a religious private school in Las Vegas, Nevada. A senior at the school went to the police and reported he sexually assaulted her several times. He invited her on a mission trip to Mexico where he became inappropriately personal. He told her he loved her.
Back in school, he asked her to dog sit while he and his wife went out of town. When she went to his house, he was alone and he raped her. His abuse continued for six months and he reacted with anger when she said she did not like it. He told her that his heart was connected to his penis, that god made him that way, that no one would believe, etc.
David Smock has been accused of sexually assaulting boys and covering up the physical abuse of students by other staff members. He was a fugitive for a while before being arrested in Arkansas. He has been charged in two separate counties for thirteen felonies including sexual assaulting minor boys.
Matthew Brewer was the Youth Pastor at the conservative Fairfield Baptist Church and a chaplain in the National Guard in Tennessee. He was caught in a trafficking sting and arrested for soliciting sex with a minor.
Stephanie Householder and her husband, Boyd, operated the Circle of Hope Girls Ranch, ostensibly a “Christian boarding school” for unruly girls in Missouri. Missouri is infamous for poorly regulated Christian boarding schools that continue to operate despite authorities knowing that abuse and neglect are rampant.
Circle of Hope was bad enough for authorities to step in after even the Householder’s children affirmed the complaints of former students. Boyd Householder was arrested and charged with 79 felonies, including child molestation, sodomy, sexual contact with a student and neglect of a child. Stephanie Householder was indicted with 22 felonies including child abuse, neglect, and endangerment. This is for incidents over the three years from 2017 to 2020, though Circle of Hope operated much longer.