Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Abraham was charged with taking indecent liberties with a child and sexual battery. He was initially held without bail, but later bail was set at $5,000 and he was released with the stipulation that he was not to have any contact with the victim and that he was not to be around children except at church services.
Steven Bradley Coward was a Latta, South Carolina, town councilmember until he was suspended by the governor after being indicted for domestic violence. He first won election to the town council in 2022 even though he had been arrested for domestic violence in September 2020. His ex-wife, who claims he grabbed her by the neck and pushed as well as pulling out a handgun. The assault is on video.
Christopher Garrett Marsh was the Chair of the Florence County District Five Board of Trustees. In 2021, he was arrested and charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a victim under age 11, two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a victim 11 to 14, and two counts of third degree sexual conduct with a minor. The victim was first assaulted in 2015 when she was five and the abuse continued until February 2021. The child’s mother was also arrested and charged with neglect because she was knew about the assault in 2015 and did nothing to protect her child after she was assured it was a one-time thing.
Erickson Lee was a police officer in Cornelius, South Carolina, and a youth leader at Morningstar Ministries, leading their Young Special Forces. Lee started the program and ran it. That was where he allegedly met and groomed the boys. He invited him to his home, provided alcohol, showed them pornographic movies and touched them without consent, according to the police. The boys were from 14 to 17 years old.
Christopher Link Jones used to work for Alex Jones, the conspiracist who was successfully sued by the Sandy Hook families for alleging the entire event was a false flag and the children they lost were crisis actors. He is now working at Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist theme park run by Kent Hovind. His coworkers were unhappy that he was allowed to stay at a family park when he was convicted in California of battery and lewd acts on children.
The governor suspended him from his position until the case was resolved. While waiting for a trial, he reconciled with his wife who told prosecutors she would not testify. They had no choice but drop the case despite the bodily injury and risk to the children. See 50 Reasons Women Don’t Leave Abusive Partners from the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence.
Donald Edward McKinney was a member of the Pickens City Council in Pickens County, South Carolina since 2014. He also served as Mayor Pro Tem. In 2022, he was arrested and charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor.
Ronnie Lee Barron was the youth pastor at Loris Presbyterian Church, in Loris, South Carolina. He was also volunteer baseball coach at the high school. He was arrested in December 2021, accused of sexual exploitation of a minor and sexual battery. The minor was a student at Loris High School and 17 years old. Barron sexually abused the youth several times from March to June 2021. He also took nude photos and made a video of a sex act with the youth.
Michael D’Attoma was named in a lawsuit alleging he sexually abused Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2. The lawsuit also names Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the South Carolina Baptist Convention, and the Northside Baptist Church because, incredibly, D’Attoma continued as pastor at the Northside Baptist Church for six more years after the abuse was reported in 2014.
Michael Paul Keech was a youth pastor at Saluda River Baptist Church in West Columbia, South Carolina. He began working there in 2019 and was fired in 2021 when a new pastor took over. Within two weeks of the new pastor taking over, Keech was fired. He said “there were some thing that were in the personnel file that I found to not being conducive of the personality and character of someone serving in the ministry. So we fired him.”