William Keith Dodd was the lead pastor at Lewark Church of God in Coffeyville, Kansas. The church had a website, but it has been removed.
In September, 2023, Dodd was arrested and charged with two counts of rape of a child younger than fourteen.
He entered a plea of no contest. He could be sentenced to 653 months for each of the charges. That’s 108 years, effectively life, but he could be eligible for parole in 25 years. Sentencing is scheduled for May 15, 2024.
Kenneth Seidens is a city councilman in Alta Vista, Kansas. He is listed as a council member on the city’s website on September 19, 2023 even though he has been arrested for child sex crimes in early August. He was a deacon at Alta Vista High View Church, but he is no longer serving there. He was charged with aggravated sexual battery, aggravated criminal sodomy, contributing to a child’s misconduct, and distributing marijuana.
The Sheriff was tipped off that a child was being exploited and went to Seiden’s house and discovered evidence that led to the arrest. The child has been removed to a safe place.
Joshua Hageman was a police officer in Wichita, Kansas. In May, 2020, he was charged with inappropriately touching two 15-year-old girls. The incident happened in 2012 when he was twenty.
In June, 2023, he pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and battery. The prosecution asked for five years probation. The judge sentenced him to two years probation with a 13-month sentence if he violates probation.
Joel Justice Womochil was the Chief of Police in Burns, Kansas until he resigned a few days before his arrest for possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. He was charged with thirteen felony counts. One of the videos was with a child under five, so young they had a pacifier. The investigation that led to his arrest was initiated by a tip from the National Center for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children.
He had a TikTok account documenting life as a cop and a profile on X with a PedoBear banner, a signal to fellow pedophiles. In addition to state charges, he has been charged federally with two counts of possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material.
The Daily Beast Docs: U.S. v. Joe Womochil (Trigger Warning, these affidavits are always explicit.)
There is an information filing down below that describes the several Child Sexual Abuse Material video he possessed. I did not read the charges. I read the first part of Count One and stopped. For other survivors of child sexual abuse, I suggest skipping it as well.
Todd Wade Allen was a Hutchinson, Kansas, police officer. He is also a serial rapist. In August, 2022, he was arrested on suspicion of being a serial rapist who had been committing sexual assaults in Rice Park, Carey Park and Fun Valley Sports Complex. Most of the women and the fifteen-year-old child he assaulted were with someone. Allen would shine a flashlight in their faces and say he was either a police officer or park security. He would tell the woman to go back to his vehicle and then assault her while interrogating her about drugs. He was not on the duty, nor in uniform, but with the light in their eyes, they could not see well enough to identify him. He was caught thanks to someone’s security camera tape.
The police chief noted that these crimes went back to 2012. In 2018, he announced that there were these several related assaults, that they were searching for a serial rapist. Allen resigned shortly after. They discovered he looked up the reports on the assaults he committed, finding out where the investigation was going.
There followed a change of method, with reports of prowlers and peeping toms. They didn’t put them together until they picked up Allen for peeping and connected the past sexual assaults to him. It’s interesting that he committed the more serious crimes while a police officer. When he was arrested, he was he was charged with two counts of kidnapping, five counts of rape, two counts of sexual battery, indecent liberties with a child involving a 14- or 15-year-old, and five counts of breach of privacy. There were ten sexual assault victims and five peeping victims.
He pleaded guilty to seventeen counts and was sentenced to from 20 to 23 1/2 years.
Arlyn Briggs got 19% of the vote in the 2022 GOP primary to choose their candidate for governor. About 90,000 voters chose a candidate arrested for threatening to shoot the police. Not only that, but all in defense of a person accused of stalking. He also ran for the state House in 2012 and 2020. He ended up being arrested three times for menacing the police.
Briggs allowed a man who was wanted for stalking by police to hide out at his home. When he saw a Sheriff’s vehicle driving by, he called and warned them that the castle doctrine allows him to defend his home. “I may have to shoot you.” he said.
Fabian Shepard was the Chair of the Johnson County, Kansas, Republicans. He also ran for an at-large seat on Shawnee Mission School District school board in 2017. He came in fourth with 13.75% of the vote in a five-way contest. In 2021, a fellow Republican party officer filed a battery complaint with the Bonner Springs police claiming he forcibly kissed her outside an anti-abortion fundraising event in Bonner Springs.
Shepard resigned when the accusation became public. State Party Chair Michael Kuckelman was unhappy the press became involved even though if he had done his job as Chair, the press would have never heard about it.
Mark Samsel was a Kansas state representative. He also worked as a substitute teacher until one day he began ranting about god, the Bible, suicide, and masturbation. In the midst of this, he kicked a student in the groin. Another student captured it on camera.
The student had put ear buds in while Samsel was telling students of an (imaginary?) Black student who attempted suicide because he had two mothers. He pushed him against the wall and kicked him in the testicles. Incredibly, he explained the incident as part of a planned lecture to teach students to be kinder to each other.
He avoided jail time under a plea deal pleading to disorderly conduct rather than battery. He got a year’s probation. He surrendered his teaching license and lost his re-election primary.
Rodney Wren was a speechwriter for Mike Pompeo. He also was a Republican candidate for the Kansas House and for Wichita City Council. He was accused of having unlawful sexual relations over two years with a teenage student while he was a teacher at Wichita Collegiate School, a private school for students from preschool through twelfth grade.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years probation. That sentence is bizarre considering he pursued her when she was a sophomore, getting her number from school records and texting her.
News articles are striking for their erasure of his political connections.
James Clendenin was a Republican member of the Wichita City Council when he conspired with Michael O’Donnell and Michael Capps to defame Brandon Whipple in order to keep him from winning the Wichita Mayor’s race. They failed which James Clendenin has proffered as a defense in his trial, suggesting that Whipple wasn’t defamed enough to lose. Yes, Clendenin is that craven.
The three of them created and raised money for an attack ad claiming Whipple sexually harassed women. They hired women to read false claims. They created a fake nonprofit and a fake business and Capps used a fake name. They were caught because the man they hired to film the video recorded their conspiring over how to blame other people when a factfinding check discovered that the claims made in the video were from news stories unrelated to Whipple.
Rape Culture is all about blaming women for being raped or claiming that women lie. These three contributed to rape culture by making false sexual harassment allegations.
Republican Sexual Predators 