Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Dakota Kennemer was a youth pastor at Grace Baptist Church in Idaho Falls, ID. He is being investigated for an inappropriate relationship with a minor from 2019 to 2022. When it came to the attention of the church, they met with him and he confessed to sexually touching the victim. He was fired. This was in December, 2022.
Jamie Flanery, an Arkansas youth pastor, is accused of sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old girl in 2012. The first time was when she at his house with her fellow students. The second, and more serious, happened when she was driving and he texted her to pull over. He got in her car and sexually assaulted her, she claims. He was charged with First Degree Sexual Assault.
Daniel Savala was a youth pastor at Clover Pass Community Church in Ketchikan, Alaska, in the late 90s when he sexually abused children at the church. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but all but 90 days was suspended. Letters from Assemblies of God clergy organized by Eli Stewart and Eli Gautreaux pled for leniency. Savala has been associated with the Chi Alpha, a Christian campus ministry since at least 1989. He spent many years working as an itinerant pastor, going from one Chi Alpha chapter to another.
Matthew Porter was the youth pastor at Bethel Baptist Church in Bradenton, FL when he was caught secretly recording young Bible study students undressing in his home. He had a house sitter while on a trip to Mexico and the sitter discovered a hidden camera and reported it to police. The sitter gave police permission to search. They found cameras that Porter said were for security, but then they found recordings of the girls, ages 12 to 16. The recordings are Child Sexual Abuse Material even though he was not charged with it.
Christopher Fourcade was Director of Children’s Ministries at at First Christian Church in Norman, Oklahoma. He also was a foster care advocate and fostered several children. He was also Service Delivery Chair at the Fostering Futures Organization. He was Secret Santa.
Laverne Paul Fox was the principal of Faith Baptist Academy in Wildomar, California. Thirty years ago, he raped a 15-year-old girl who came forward as an adult. Fox was extradited from Pennsylvania to face trial in California. However, he pleaded guilty in a deal for 18 months prison, but the judge sentenced him to two years after hearing the victim’s statement.
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.
Gary Buckaloo was a teacher at Buffalo Independent School District and taught Life Sciences. He was also a youth pastor at First Baptist Church in Normangee, in Leon County, Texas.
In March, 2023, he was charged with one count of Indecency with a Child-Sexual Contact and one count of Sex Abuse of a Child Continuous. The victim was less than fourteen.
In February, 2023, he was arrested for felony sexual abuse of a minor by a person in authority. His father is the pastor of the church and is alleged to have protected him for years. The abuse is alleged to have happened fifteen years ago. The victim attended Bible Baptist Church. He began giving her gifts when she was fifteen. He began engaging in sex acts when she turned sixteen. Her family found out and put a stop to it. Duffett’s father is the pastor of the church and is alleged to have protected him.
Jacob Woods was a youth pastor at Rutherford County Baptist Church in Smyrna, Tennessee. He was arrested in May 2022 and indicted on five counts of statutory rape by an authority figure. According to the victim’s family, he began grooming her when she was fifteen and began raping her when she was sixteen while on a church camp trip in Indiana. He continued for two years until the family learned of it.