Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Sean Patrick Masopust was a youth pastor at Northridge Church, an Evangelical church in Owatanna, Minnesota where his father-in-law was pastor. He pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. He was 33 and she was 17, making any romantic or sexual relationship, especially under his authority as youth pastor, a criminal act.
Thomas James Brackett was a youth pastor at Tabernacle Christian Church in Baltimore County, Maryland, back in the Eighties. That is when he is alleged to have sexually abused two minors in his pastoral care. They were eight and ten at the time. He was twenty-one or twenty-two.
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.”
Trent Ivey was a Southern Baptist youth pastor at Vestal Baptist Church in South Knox, Tennessee. He was arrested in 2021 for sexual battery with a 16 and 18-year-old girl. He is out on bail and has a 2024 court date with deferred disposition which means he pled no contest, must meet certain obligations, and then there will be criminal conviction on his record.
Ryan Scott Walsh was a youth pastor at Gulf Breeze Methodist Church in Florida. Parents of a 13-year-old girl found inappropriate texts on her phone. They went to the church pastor who chose to handle it internally at first, until the church learned Walsh had also touched the child. Then the church went to the police.
When he was arrested, police reported he had communicated and solicited nude photos from 20 to 25 young girls aged 14 to 17. He pled guilty to online solicitation and was sentenced to 5 years.
Jonathan Mark Myers was a youth pastor and principal of a parochial school associated with the same church in Edinburgh, Indiana. As principal, he pursued an inappropriate relationship with a young girl. He gave her rides to and from church and began grooming her. Eventually, he began sexually abusing her.
Steve Wukmer was on the staff at Agape Christian Boarding School, infamous for allegations of abuse, neglect, and trafficking. He was also a children’s minister in Ohio.
He was arrested in November 2022 on 215 charges related to child sex abuse material. Bail was set at $12.9 million.
Jeffery Williams was a Salvation Army youth pastor in Fountain, Colorado. He was arrested in October, 2022, for sending sexually explicit inappropriate material to a minor.
Charles Kyle Adcock was a youth pastor at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals from 2010 to 2012. While youth pastor, he began molesting a child, a 14-year-old girl. Police recovered over 200,000 texts between Adcock and the girl over three years. When she was nineteen she went to police. He was charged with twenty counts of rape and nine counts of sodomy.