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229: George H. W. Bush

Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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George H. W. Bush was the President of the United States from 1989 to 2003, between Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. In 2017, eight women accused him of groping them including one woman who said she was sixteen when he it happened.

His defenders point out that being in a wheelchair, his arm is at an awkward height for photos and he may just be putting his arm around someone as people do, but sitting, he’s too low and it’s perceived as groping. But one of the women said he groped her in 1992, the year he ran against Bill Clinton for president. In 2003, when he is said to have groped a sixteen-year-old, he was spinning around Kennebunkport on a Segway.

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199: Charles Schwertner

Sexual Misconduct
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Charles Schwertner was accused of sending an explicit text message and a photo of his genitals to a University of Texas graduate student — telling her, “I just really want to f**k you.” He denied it. He alleged that a third party to whom he gave his log-in information used his Linked-In and Hushed account (a phone spoofing account) to send the message. He refused to name that person and refused to cooperate with the investigation. Nonetheless, the University said his explanation was plausible. Schwertner said that that closes the case.

The Univesity said it is clear the student received the text and was justified in believing Schwertner sent them. The report did not clear Schwertner, despite his claims otherwise.

196: Matt Chandler

Organizational Cover-Up
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Matt Chandler is the spiritual leader of a multi-site church known as The Village Church. It is one of the largest Baptist megachurches in the country. When Karen Hinkley’s husband confessed he was a pedophile, she divorced him. Her church punished her for divorcing her husband when he confessed and not seeking reconciliation. Her husband, Jordan Root, the pedophile they did not punish because he repented and was in counseling. The couple had been on a mission in East Asia when he was dismissed for violating their child safety policy. (How is not explained.)

183: Ken Starr

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture, Uncategorized
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Ken Starr is most infamous as the sex-obsessed independent counsel who chose to include prurient sexual details in The Starr Report and in the Senate trial questioning of Monica Lewinsky. That is not why he is featured on this list even though his desire to humiliate and debase Lewinsky certainly displayed misogyny. However, it was in his role as the President of the largest Baptist school in America, Baylor University, where he earned complete ignominy by covering up the rapes of several women enrolled as students there. Protecting the football players was much more important than protecting women. It seems even today Baylor University would like to pretend it never happened.

182: David Garland

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up
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David Garland was the interim president of Baylor University, the largest Baptist school in America and an extremely conservative school. He was appointed after Ken Starr resigned in the midst of the rape scandal. The school commissioned an investigation and several women came forward filing a federal lawsuit claiming Baylor did not protect female students…

177: Matt Baker

Murder, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault
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Matt Baker was a widely respected Baptist minister in Waco, TX. Waco, home of Baylor University, is for Southern Baptists a sort of center of faith. In 2006, his wife Kari Baker died. It was ruled a suicide and there was no autopsy. He claimed she was depressed over the death of their daughter and wanted to be with her.

Her parents did not believe she killed herself and hired a detective who found a motive for murder. Her body was exhumed and her death was ruled a murder by asphyxiation. It was discovered that Baker was a serial predator with a series of accusations of molesting underage women, sexual assault, and attempted rape. He also was in love a young parishioner.

144: Samuel Barstow Kent

Sexual Assault
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Samuel B. Kent was a federal district judge appointed by George H. W. Bush. He was a powerful man at the top of the ladder in Galveston, TX. He abused that power by sexual assaulting the women who worked for the district court. When one woman came forward, he was given a short suspension, a coverup by the judges he worked with. However, her complaint triggered an FBI investigation that led to his indictment and eventual conviction and prison sentence. He was also impeached, taking away his salary and pension. He was the first district judge to be indicted for sexual assault.

124: Blake Farenthold

Sexual Harassment
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Blake Farenthold was a Texas representative to Congress. He was accused of sexual harassment and retaliation against the employee who complained. He is also accused of making inappropriate statements to other members of his official staff. They used taxpayer funds to pay for his $84,000 settlement with the staff member. Initially, he said he would…

114: Cody Wilson

Child Rape, Sexual Assault
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Cody Wilson of Texas is a gun-rights activist. He decided to short circuit the debate on regulating plastic guns by posting plans for making a gun on a 3D printer. A juvenile woman, under 17, reported to police that he had paid her to have sex and exchanged explicit photos with her. NBC News: 3D…

113: Eddie Frankum

Sexual Harassment
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Eddie Frankum was the police chief of Pelican Bay, Texas, when he decided to run for county sheriff in another county. However, a grand jury indicted him with illegally detaining a woman and two counts of sexual harassment by touching. He was accused by two women of touching them inappropriately during arrest searches. My Plainview:…