Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
June brought worse problems when he was arrested for child molestation involving a twelve-year-old girl. The child molestation investigation began a week before the drug arrest. He was charged with one count each of first-degree child molestation, second-degree child molestation, and enticement of a person under the age of 16.
James Jackson is a priest at St. Mary’s Catholic Parish in Providence, Rhode Island. He is also a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a Catholic organization that rejected Vatican 2 and continues to preach the mass in Latin. They editorialized against Biden and against Ruth Bader Ginsburg the day after her death. He also is accused of collecting and distributing child sexual exploitation materials.
Richard Bucci is a Catholic priest who took it upon himself to excommunicate forty-four Rhode Island legislators who voted to codify abortion rights. He sent out a notice informing the public that the named people could not receive communion, witness a marriage, read during a funeral, or serve as godparents. For him, abortion is worse than pedophilia. “Pedophilia never killed anyone.”
Thomas Tobin was auxiliary bishop in Pittsburgh when he learned of sexual abuse happening within his diocese. He did nothing because, he said, his work was administrative, and so it was not his responsibility.
Roy Bolden was a pastor of the Legions of Christ Ministries in Providence, Rhode Island. It’s a church that happily risks its nonprofit status with openly partisan, pro-Republican teaching. He was also the Chair of the Providence GOP. In 2017, he was charged with child molestation. The case is ongoing and the next pre-trial conference is in late October, 2022.
The accuser was 21 in 2017 when he went to the police. He said the abuse began when he was twelve and continued for six years.
Nicholas Kettle was a Republican state senator in Rhode Island. He was arrested on charges of video voyeurism and extortion after his former long-time girlfriend filed charges. He was also charged with extorting a page by threatening his job unless he had sex with him. He resigned from office.
He shot pics of his then-girlfriend and sent them to a friend in New Hampshire. He took a plea deal and apologized to her in court. He was sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence.
The extorting sex case was dropped for two reasons. The page refused to return to Rhode Island to testify and Kettle produced chat logs of the page and him talking over several months, conversations that were flirtatious and friendly. This was perceived as exculpatory and it well might be. However, there are many examples of people who remained friendly with people who assaulted them because of the power dynamics