Author: Cajsa Lilliehook

The Brett Kavanaugh confirmation infuriated me and inspired me to document the multitude of sexual predators in the Republican "family values" party. The Republican Sexual Predators twitter thread of over 700 GOP predators is the result.

986: Christopher Schroder

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Christopher Schroder was a Cincinnati police officer. In January 2023, he pleaded guilty  to five misdemeanor counts of dereliction of duty. During more than a decade serving on the Personal Crimes Unit, he failed to turn in rape kits and DNA swabs, performed inadequate investigations of crimes with vulnerable victims such a minors and people with developmental disabilities, and sometimes performed no investigation whatsoever. There were 47 cases of dereliction and a 48th by the time the case came to court.

He lost his certification to be a police officer and was sentenced to 5 years probation plus 500 hours of community service.

Former CPD officer admits to mishandling rape cases The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio · Saturday, January 21, 2023
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio · Saturday, January 21, 2023

985: John Blanchard

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John Blanchard is the pastor of Rock Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is an ardent Trump supporter who editorialized on behalf of Trump. He remains the pastor despite his 2021 arrest for soliciting a minor. He was talking to an undercover officer. He was told he was meeting for sex with a 17-year-old girl. He arrived at the spot with money for the transaction and was arrested by the police.

Charges were withdrawn, though with the ability to file them again. The Chief of Police expressed his anger with the decision. Blanchard’s lawyers filed to get the arrest expunged. Blanchard then publicly claimed the charges were lies.

Enough suspicion about the prosecution and what she called political accusations led the prosecutor to request a special prosecutor. A special prosecutor was appointed in February 2023.

Prosecutor: Investigation of pastor could take months Daily Press Newport News, Virginia · Thursday, March 23, 2023
Daily Press
Newport News, Virginia · Thursday, March 23, 2023

984: Dustin Spillers

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Dustin Spillers was the PTA president as well as the youth pastor at the conservative Abba’s House church. He was involved in youth programs at two churches. In January 2023, he was arrested and charged with molesting two boys, specifically with three counts of sexual molestation and one count of sexual battery assault.

Former church volunteer, PTA president faces molestation charges Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN) January 19, 2023

983: Brian Stout

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Brian Stout is a Republican Representative in the Oregon House. He ran for District 31 in 2018 and 2020 but lost to Democrat Brad Witt. After redistricting, the district was more Republican and he won in 2022 when Witt ran in a different district. However, one of his campaign volunteers alleged her sexually assaulted and threatened her and sought a protective order that was granted.

Stout claimed that she was making the allegation to help another Republican replace him so she could get a job in Salem. This is undercut by the fact she was a volunteer on Stout’s campaign. He claimed she was the aggressor and stalked him and was aggressive toward him. He also said the sex act that was interrupted by his wife was consensual and instigated by the woman. The woman says he threatened her with violence and touched her sexually multiple times, incidents she detailed.

Stout sought to vacate the order in court in May 2023 and lost, the judge sustained a five-year protective order and said he was not credible. This led to Stout’s removal from House Committees.

Judge upholds sex abuse protective order against Rep. Brian Stout Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) May 10, 2023

982: Michael Patterson

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Michael Patterson was the City Manager of Florence, Colorado. He was arrested in November 2021 for four counts, including two counts of stalking-emotional distress, a Class 5 felony; sexual contact-no consent, a Class 1 misdemeanor; and providing alcohol to a minor, also a Class 1 misdemeanor. He was immediately terminated and ordered to stay off city property.

However, the council knew about a litany of complaints about his behavior in the office and had already settled three sexual harassment suits. They knew he had pleaded guilty to domestic violence in Oregon when they hired him. When word got out about this arrest, all but one council member resigned.

He pleaded guilty to providing alcohol to a minor on October 20, 2022 and was sentenced to two years probation in January 2023.

U.S. District Court lawsuits claim City of - Daily Record, The (Cañon City, CO) - February 7, 2022 - page 1 February 7, 2022 | Daily Record, The (Cañon City, CO) | Carie Canterbury Two separate lawsuits recently have been filed in U.S. District Court against the City of Florence and its former city manager, Michael Patterson, claiming that Patterson's alleged sexual harassment was "severe and pervasive" and that city officials not only knew about the allegations, but they didn't take any action. The suits were filed by a former city employee and a current city employee. Because the alleged victims are claiming sexual harassment and abuse, their names will not be printed. Both lawsuits allege that the City of Florence enabled Patterson's "system of abuse," which allegedly occurred during working hours at City Hall. "In fact, at Mr. Patterson's request, the city paid for and installed blinds in his office so as to allow to him to engage in predatory behavior in his office," the lawsuits state. Patterson, 54, was arrested Nov. 15 and later charged with two counts of stalking – emotional distress, and sexual contact – no consent and providing alcohol to a minor. The lawsuits claim discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, emotional distress, assault, battery, false imprisonment, negligent hiring, negligent supervision, negligent retention, defamation and wrongful termination. The first lawsuit, filed Jan. 31, claims that Patterson sexually harassed the alleged victim via text messages and verbal comments and that he sexually assaulted her while pinning her against a door. In August 2021, just before Patterson was terminated, he allegedly took the female employee into his office, shut the door and locked it, closed the blinds, pushed her against the door and forcefully touched her genitals. After she refused his advances, he allegedly retaliated against her by making false claims, "including grotesque claims that she was being sexually inappropriate" and rather than addressing the substance of the reports, the city attorney "joined the City in attempting to blame the victim." The second lawsuit, filed Feb. 4, claims that Patterson sent text messages from his city-funded cell phone that "ran the gamut from fantasizing about (the named victim) to explicitly asking her to have sex with him." The alleged victim explicitly told Patterson to stop the behavior, to which he refused, the lawsuit states. She "had no reasonable alternative but to resign." City officials who worked alongside her and Patterson knew this abusive behavior for months and did nothing, including her supervisor, who now is the current interim city manager, the lawsuit states. The suit alleges that Interim City Manager Sean Garrett has "repeatedly exclaimed that Mr. Patterson's victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault need to 'move on' ad 'get over it.'" According to the lawsuit, other department heads knew of the alleged abuse and of Patterson's "predatory behavior." Both lawsuits state that during Patterson's tenure as the City Manager of the City of Redmond, Ore., he was charged with one count of felony fourth-degree assault and one count of misdemeanor fourth-degree assault against a woman with whom he was in a romantic relationship. The lawsuit states that the City of Florence performed a background check that contained information about the misconduct and that the city knew about this history of misconduct before they hired him. According to The Oregonian/OregonLive, Patterson was sentenced to an 18-month counseling program aimed at preventing domestic violence. "Evidence of Mr. Patterson's behavior and related complaints and charges are and were readily available with a simple internet search," the lawsuit states. According to a statement released by the City of Florence in January, Patterson was selected Dec. 5, 2011, for the position with council members Charles Giebler, Svatlana Pittingrud, Larry Baker, Tony Martinez and Nichole Prickett voting aye, Georgia Enslow abstaining and Mayor Ron Hinkle voting nay. The lawsuit also alleges that the city's attempts to "assert that Mr. Patterson's conduct took City government by surprise" are false. In or around late 2019, another former female City employee allegedly was sexually harassed by Patterson and then-Police Chief Mike DeLautrentis, according to the lawsuit. The alleged victim brought the harassment to the attention of the city, the suit states, but she was terminated "in retaliation for reporting this sexual harassment." In 2019, she settled a claim with the City of Florence. Information provided by the CIty of Florence in January states that the city settled one prior lawsuit/claim involving Patterson on Nov. 13, 2019. The city paid $1,000 in the form of a deductible, and the city's insurance carrier paid a settlement in the amount of $54,290. "Even after the city was made aware of Mr. Patterson's practice of abusing women, the City did not implement any supervisory protocol over him in an attempt to prevent his predatory behavior," the lawsuit states. "The City allowed Mr. Patterson's abusive behavior to continue." Patterson did not experience any tangible adverse employment action after his alleged abuse was brought to light. Instead, he was "promoted, given pay raises and hidden perks," the lawsuits allege. The suit alleges that City Attorney Matthew Krob "failed to adequately address, much less prevent, future abuse after (the alleged victims') complaints. "Mr. Krob's loyalty was to Mr. Patterson. As a further violation of his duty to the City, Mr. Krob secretly fed Mr. Patterson information about and reports made against Mr. Patterson," the suit alleges. "Perhaps this is unsurprising as Mr. Krob and Mr. Patterson often socialized outside of work." Copyright (c) 2022, Daily Record, The (Canon City, CO), All Rights Reserved.
Daily Record, The (Cañon City, CO)
February 7, 2022

981: Aaron Mitchell

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Aaron Mitchell was a Customs and Border Protection officer in Arizona when he was arrested in April 2022 for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old girl. According to the police, Mitchell approached a girl walking to school. He was wearing a tactical vest that identified him as a CBP officer. He asked her for her documentation. After she gave it to him, he told her he was taking her to the police station. Instead, he took her to an apartment complex where he raped her.

The state indicted him on eighteen charges before the Dept. of Justice added three federal charges in November, 2022, that include violating her civil rights by kidnapping and raping her, kidnapping, and misleading investigators.

While he was alone in the interrogation room, he was caught on tape threatening the witness. “F——- little b—-. B—– is claiming rape. That’s so f—— crazy. That’s crazy, man. She better hope I don’t get out of here.” That may not be a serious threat, the federal prosecutors concede, but they asked for and received revocation of the bail the state had granted him, so he is incarcerated until trial.

“If Mitchell was bold enough to kidnap a girl near her school, depraved enough to violently and sexually assault her, cunning enough to dispose of incriminating evidence, and careless enough to threaten her while in police custody, then none of Mitchell’s proposed conditions of release would reasonably assure the safety of the community and the victim,” prosecutors argued in court papers filed Nov. 10, 2022. He appealed his pretrial detention and lost.

BP officer accused of sexually assaulting 15-year-old Arizona Daily Star 29 Apr 2022, Fri · Page B1
Arizona Daily Star
29 Apr 2022, Fri · Page B1

980: Scott Yotka

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Scott Yotka was a Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff’s Police Emergency Communications Officer when he arrested for producing and distributing child sexual abuse material. Of course that means he sexually abused children.

He bragged in a chat room about how much he enjoyed sexually abusing children and sent an FBI agent pictures and video. They tracked him down and seized CSAM and arrested him. He admitted it all during questioning.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to sixty years. The Dept. of Justice report is excessively detailed. The appeal is even worse. He appealed his sentence, but lost.

Ex-Police Dispatcher arrested on child pornography charges Florida Times-Union, The (Jacksonville, FL) September 22, 2021
Florida Times-Union, The (Jacksonville, FL)
September 22, 2021

979: Rafael Cuevas

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Rafael Cuevas was the pastor of Temple of Prayer Assembly of God church, a church his father built with his own hands. In 2021, he was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a child under the age of twelve from 2017 to 2020. His official charges were two counts of sexual battery and six counts of lewd and lascivious molestation against a victim under 12 years old.

In a plea deal, he pled guilty to two counts of attempted sexual battery of a minor. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison and ten years subsequent probation.

Pastor arrested, accused of molesting child Florida Times-Union, The (Jacksonville, FL) April 18, 2021
Florida Times-Union, The (Jacksonville, FL)
April 18, 2021

978: Joseph Kade Abbott

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Joseph Kade Abbott was a teacher at the Apostolic Christian Academy in Maryville, Tennessee. Apostolic Christian Academy is a private Christian school. The Student Manual asserts their values which as fundamentalist and evangelical. Unsurprisingly, they assert:

1.8.We believe that God created the human person as either male or female in His image and likeness, that a person’s sex is not changeable per God’s design and that God’s design for marriage and the family is the union of one man and one woman from whose union children are brought into the world. A person’s life begins at the moment of his or her conception and should be protected until natural death.

Abbott was arrested in North Carolina in January, 2023, and brought to Blount County, Tennessee, for arraignment. The family originally went to the police in June. He was arrested for sexually abusing a fourteen-year-old girl. The charge of sexual battery by an authority figure is used against defendants who use their job or legal status to take advantage of their victim, or have parental or custodial authority.

He no longer works for the Academy but was on the staff at the beginning of the school year in August when the girl’s family sued the Academy for its failure to protect their daughter from him. They claimed she was sexually assaulted several times the year before. The school had announced they had achieved Partner In Prevention status which meant they had taken steps to prevent sexual abuse.

He has since moved to Charlotte, North Carolina.

In March, 2023, new charges were added involving another child in Sevier County, Tennessee. He has a hearing July 7, 2023.

Family sued church before ex-teacher charged with sexual abuse The Knoxville News-Sentinel Knoxville, Tennessee · Saturday, January 21, 2023
The Knoxville News-Sentinel
Knoxville, Tennessee · Saturday, January 21, 2023

977: Garrett Biggerstaff

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Garrett Biggerstaff was the pastor of Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Fairfield and a Trump supporter. He is also charged with grooming children.

An investigation began when a youth came to the police with an account of sexual exploitation. They executed a search warrant on Biggerstaff’s home and electronic devices where they found communications with a second victim as well.

Grooming involves illicit and sexually improper communications over electronic devices and Biggerstaff is accused of sending these types of communications to the juvenile victims. He was arrested and charged with two counts of child grooming.

He was suspended by the church and subsequently resigned. He also resigned from his job as athletic director at Spring Garden Consolidated Community School in November.

Jury selection begins June 6, 2023.

Illinois Pastor Charged with Two Counts of Grooming Biblical Recorder January 9, 2023
Biblical Recorder
January 9, 2023