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436: Daniel Rodimer

Assault, Familial Abuse & Violence

Daniel Rodimer is the retired professional wrestler Dan Rodman and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress. He’s also been accused of domestic violence though no charges were filed and he remains married to his wife who twice called the police. Before that, a neighbor called police on him when he was fighting with a former girlfriend. He also has three assault charges and he pleaded no contest to one of them.

432: Gary Wiggins

Child Abuse, Trafficking

Gary Wiggins ran an anti-gay “conversion” camp with his wife Meghan. They were both indicted for trafficking the children sent to their camp. The children were subject to physical abuse and forced labor. They had moved on to Illinois after the State of Texas shut down their Joshua Home. Texas followed the closing of their home in Missouri for child abuse allegations and in Alabama before that. They were extradited from Alabama to Texas.

414: John Jones

Child Sexual Abuse Material, Rape

In 2019, woman called the police from his home. She claimed that she had attended a party at Jones’ home the night before. The woman claimed he took her out on an ATV and raped her out in the woods. Jones claimed it was consensual. A judge dismissed her application for a protective order because he didn’t think she was convincing though the woman went to an Emergency Room where they identified trauma to her body.

407: Greg Abbott

Rape Culture

Greg Abbott is the Republican governor of Texas who just won re-election in 2022. He contributed to rape culture by vetoing a bill to protect children from being prosecuted when they are the victims of sex traffickers. One of the great injustices of our legal system is that when children are trafficked, they are prosecuted…

399: Stephen Bratton

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Incest

Stephen Bratton was a Southern Baptist pastor in Texas. He supported a bill that would charge women who had an abortion with murder. In 2019, he was arrested for repeatedly raping a minor child from 2013 to 2015, starting when she was just 13. He admitted guilt to his wife and three pastors at his…

374: J. E. “Buster” Brown

Sexual Harassment

J. E. “Buster” Brown was a Texas state senator. He served twenty-two years until his resignation in 2002. A young woman, Tiffany Black, worked for his office while a college student. She reported that during a mock golf lesson, he kissed and fondled her. She then resigned. Rather than pursue criminal charges, the D.A, negotiated an apology in the form of a public letter.

363: Bo Dresner

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Bo Dresner was a Republican county official, sergeant of arms, and a precinct chair in Hays County, Texas. He has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of one victim over the course of seven years. The four children in his custody have been removed. Aggravated sexual assault means the alleged assailant caused serious bodily harm, used fear or threats of violence, flourishing of weapons, to coerce them, or gives them something that impairs their ability to resist.

326: Larry Cotton

Organizational Cover-Up

Larry Cotton was Associate Pastor at Parkway Baptist Church when the seventeen-year-old Jules Woodson came to him and told him that the youth pastor had forced her to give him oral sex the night before. Instead of being concerned about the teenager who has just been sexually assaulted, he attacked her, saying “so you participated.” He told her not to tell anyone and heaped the blame on her, protecting the youth pastor Andy Savage [See GOP Sexual Predators 324: Andy Savage.] Savage was suspended for a time but the church later asked her parents if they would mind if he came back. They minded.

The police were not informed.