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910: Jonathan Myers

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming

Jonathan Mark Myers was a youth pastor and principal of a parochial school associated with the same church in Edinburgh, Indiana. As principal, he pursued an inappropriate relationship with a young girl. He gave her rides to and from church and began grooming her. Eventually, he began sexually abusing her.

653: Todd Roatsey

Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Solicitation of a Minor

Todd Roatsey was a Trump twitter advocate was honored, ironically, at the Obama White House when he was named West Virginia School Counselor of the Year in 2016. That school counselor of the year posed as an 18-year-old in chats with two girls who were 10 and 11 years old. One of them was a student at the school where he worked. He persuaded to send him videos of them masturbating. He sent videos of himself to them. In addition, two adult women claimed they were assaulted by him when they were minors.

616: Stephanie Householder

Child Abuse, Child Endangerment, Custodial Negligence

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.

615: Boyd Householder

Child Abuse, Child Endangerment, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Trafficking

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.

434: Phillip Todd Wilson

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Phillip Todd Wilson was a high school principal who came to national news attention for banning school library books with gay content. In all four books were banned because he said they were pornographic. He was arrested after someone alerted police that he sent pictures of child sex abuse pornography. “ According to court documents,…