Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers Pt. 29

This is the 29th installment in the list of Republican sexual predators, abusers, and enablers who contribute to rape culture. These are people who abused their power or defended abuse of power. These are not folks caught in consensual scandals such as being gay, having an affair, or soliciting adult prostitutes. They may be hypocrites, but they are not predators

• 701  Kristopher Coody, Republican Sheriff of Bleckley County, Georgia, has been charged with sexual battery for groping a woman.

• 702  Book-banning advocate Ryan Utterback from Northland, MO has been charged with child molestation and showing pornography to minors.

• 703  Pastor Greg Locke, a big Trump supporter, is accused by his ex-wife of physical and emotional abuse.  

• 704  Dennis Perkins, a registered Republican and former head of the Sheriff’s SWAT team in Livingston Parish, LA has been indicted for 150 accounts of rape, child sexual abuse, child pornography. He committed crimes with his wife and lover, both of whom are already adjudicated.

• 705  Nebraska state senator Mike Groene has resigned after initially denying the accusation that he took sexually inappropriate photos of his legislative aide.  

• 706  Barry Morphew, who was once drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays, has been arrested for killing his wife and then casting her ballot for Trump.  

• 707  Donald Crerar, an insurrectionist at the state and federal level who also makes terroristic threats to school boards, sexually assaulted a child but his lawyer got the case dismissed because his flag did not fly.  More.

• 708  Gary Clark, the former mayor Zillah, WA who retired after losing in 2020, has been accused by more than one person of child rape.

• 709  Severance, CO, Mayor Donald Marceau McLeod, a Republican, resigned after being arrested for child prostitution.

• 710  Kenneth Lewis Barrett, Republican Mayor of Winston, OR was caught in an undercover sting, thinking he was meeting with a 14-year-old girl

• 711  Jeremy Filbert, Republican former Mayor of Mitchellville, IA, was charged with rape and sodomy of a child in Kansas. Here is the verdict.

• 712  Valley Mills TX Mayor, Rodney Burl Nichols, child indecency. After he shot himself in the stomach, he was indicted for child indecency and then indicted for ten further charges alleging he raped a child under 14 several times and also raped another child. They tried to charge him 14 years earlier in 2005, but the grand jury declined to indict.

• 713  John J, Griffin, former CNN producer and registered Republican, child sex abuse. He enticed mothers to bring their minor children to him in exchange for gifts, trips, etc. Child enticement and molestation. 

  

• 714  Neil Gardner, a former Republican Highway Superintendent, settled with a woman who accused him sexually molesting her since she was twelve, that he took pictures of her to sell.

• 715  Terry Peters, Arizona Republican donor, and husband of Bush Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, was sentenced to 14 years for child molestation

• 716  Michigan House candidate Republican Robert “RJ” Regan claimed he tells his daughters to “lie back and enjoy it” if rape is inevitable.

• 717  Brandon Beckham, Republican Utah State Senate candidate, has been charged with forcible sexual assault

• 718  Paul Dyal, Jacksonville Florida pastor and registered Republican, was arrested for capital sexual battery of a child 11 or younger. The abuse is alleged to affect many people going back 30 years.

• 719  William Henry Randall, 1998 Republican candidate for Congress in FL, was sentenced to 20 years for child sexual battery

• 720  Stephen Bates, Ted Cruz-endorsing pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Nashua, NH, arrested for child pornography

• 721  Sen. Joey Hensley of Tennessee was put on medical probation for prescribing to family members. He also prescribed to and had an affair with one of his employees, his second cousin. They are consenting adults, BUT he is her employer and her prescribing physician, making this an improper influence relationship.

• 722 Danielle Neuschwanger, the leading candidate in the GOP primary for governor, has been twice arrested for domestic violence and had a permanent restraining order requested by her ex-boyfriend who was the victim in the domestic violence incidents. She now claims he was the abuser, but that was not what she told the police.

• 723    Former GOP legislative candidate, John Myser, has been accused of domestic assault.

• 724  Former Blasdell NY Mayor Michael McGuire, a Republican,  has been accused by three former students of sexual abuse while they were minors.

• 725  Former Sweetwater, FL mayor, Republican Jose “Pepe” Diaz was accused of sexual harassment. He fired her after she complained.

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