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943: Aaron Duane Shipman

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Rape

Aaron Duane Shipman was the pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Odessa, Texas. In January, 2022, he was arrested for sexual assault of a minor. On January 17th, 2022, an eighteen-year-old woman went to police to report that she had been raped the night before by her pastor, who had been sexually assaulting her repeatedly since she was sixteen. They did a rape exam and found evidence of sexual trauma. He was arrested on the 20th.

942: Conrad Estrada Valdez

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Conrad Estrada Valdez was the pastor of Restoration Outreach Church in Houston, Texas. Around 2005, a fifteen-year-old girl sought him out for counseling after she was sexually assaulted. He began touching her and eventually sexually abusing her. He threatened to expose her to her family which kept her quiet for fifteen years until she saw a documentary about sexual assault survivors.

941: Jonathan Ensey

Child Indecency, Solicitation of a Minor

Jonathan Ryan Ensey was music director and worship leader at Living Way Church where his father was pastor. He pursued a sexual relationship with a child he met when she was nine. As her pastoral leader, he persuaded her that what he was doing was perfectly fine. So fine that she mentioned to her father that she was in a relationship with him. The father found thousands of texts from him to his daughter including a photo Ensey took from the pulpit referencing fellatio that he sent to a child.

928: Jeffrey Winston Forrest

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Jeffrey Winston Forrest was a youth pastor at Pioneer Baptist Church in Abilene, Texas. In 1998, there were allegations against him for sexual abuse. Children’s Protective Services investigated but the police did not pursue as there were discrepancies between the child’s two interviews. He did not face justice for 23 more years.

902: John Cameron Denton

Child Sexual Abuse Material

John Cameron Denton was the leader of Atomwaffen, the neo-Nazi terrorist group. He was also accused of sharing pornography during his trial for a swatting conspiracy that set 134 swatting events on journalists, a university, a church, a mosque, and members of marginalized groups. This guy’s online alias was Rape.

897: Warren Jeffs

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Warren Jeffs is the leader of a reactionary Mormon cult that defies the official church by continuing to practice polygamy. He raped multiple children, fathered children by children, and married several children. Twenty-four of his 78 marriages were to children under seventeen. One was as young as twelve.

883: David Ray Barker

Child Indecency

David Ray Barker is a white nationalist and affiliated with the Texas Patriot Network, a violent, radical group. In 2001, he was convicted in two separate cases of indecency with a child by contact. The victim was 9 years old. Because of that he was required to register as a violent sex offender for life. He failed to do so and got in trouble again. He appealed, arguing that the sex offender law was unconstitutional, but his appeal was denied.

878: David Lloyd Walther

Child Sexual Abuse Material

David Lloyd Walther was the pastor of Faith Baptist Church, an anti-gay church in Round Rock, Texas. He also was arrested and faces federal charges for distribution, receipt, transportation and possession of child sexual abuse material. I am not going to write out what all he collected.

866: Mark Aderholt

Child Molestation, Child Rape

He was also a child molester. When one of his victims reported that he sexually abused and assaulted her, the International Mission Board investigated and sustained her allegation, yet they did not report him to the police and it did not affect his career since he went on to work for the Southern Baptist Convention in Alabama.