Category: Enabling

1538: Michael Whatley

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Michael Whatley

Michael Whatley was the chair of the Republican National Committee. Currently, he is running for U. S. Senate with Trump’s endorsement. He is pushing a tough-on-crime agenda, while he has been instrumental in helping a former felon and child rapist secure leadership positions in the North Carolina GOP.

Harvey Lee West was a 28-year-old police officer when he was convicted of the statutory rape of three girls, two were fourteen and one was sixteen years old. While West minimizes his crimes and suggests he took a plea deal even though he was innocent because it was less risky. He was a police officer.

After prison, he sought to be active in the GOP and starting hosting fundraisers. According to West, he was open about his prior conviction. Nonetheless, they were happy to accept his sponsorship of fundraising events. Then Whatley recently appointed him chair of the GOP’s 1st Congressional District committee. He was also the chair of the party’s Plan of Organization committee, a powerful rule-making body.

Whatley’s vocal efforts to dismiss the Epstein files and Trump’s long history with the child trafficker only exacerbated intra-party frustration over his champion Harvey West. Whatley’s “tough-on-crime” rhetoric seemed hollow when he worked so hard on behalf of at least one known child predator.

Charlotte Observer Today’s Edition, The (NC) – March 20, 2026 – page 309

1499: Gary Cannon

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Gary Cannon, a Trump donor, was the President of the Board of the Oregon Coast Military Museum in Florence, Oregon. His son, Geoffrey Cannon, who has no party affiliation,was arrested and charged with child sexual abuse. Geoffrey was the museum’s director. When the minor’s family addressed the Board, Cannon said she knew what she was doing and equally offensive blaming the victim to excuse his son raping a minor.

He added, “I think your daughter could be a promiscuous little slut and you don’t know it,” the board member said. “And I think you need to get a real handle on that. Think about a young girl that knows how to manipulate men with sex and has done it before.” (Register Guard)

Both Cannons, father and son, resigned. Geoffrey Cannon took a plea which kept him out of jail. Just five years probation which the child’s mother says is not enough.

The Register-Guard
Wed, Nov 12, 2025 ·Page A1

1444: J. Stuart Adams

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J. Stuart Adams

J. Stuart Adams is the Republican President of the Utah State Senate. He told a colleague, Sen. Kirk Cullimore, about his granddaughter’s legal troubles (charged with child rape and child sodomy) and asked him to look into changing the Romeo-Juliet Law.

She was 18 and raped a thirteen-year-old minor, outside the Romeo-Juliet exemption that recognizes teen romances where one partner is technically and adult. However, the usual age difference allowed is 3 or 4 years. She was charged with two counts of child rape and two counts of child sodomy. Mandatory sentencing required some jail time and registering as a sex offender. She would not agree to a plea deal requiring registering as a sex offender.

Cullimore asked his granddaughter’s lawyer what would be ideal and the granddaughter’s lawyer actually drafted the language. He introduced a bill to allow for third-degree charges for raping a minor. Adams did not disclose to his other colleagues or the governor that the law would benefit his granddaughter.

The prosecutor, when speaking about the issue, said that the law’s passage allowed him to advocate for a lesser sentence that allowed Adams’ granddaughter to avoid prison and did not require her to register as a sex offender. She pleaded guilty to assault and sexual battery (a misdemeanor) and was sentenced to four years probation. The judge, prosecutor and defense attorney all agreed that the legislative change did impact how the charges were resolved.

It is interesting that journalists very carefully do not identify the convicted adult felon who is his granddaughter, treating her like the victim rather than the perpetrator of a serious sex crime.

GOP Lawmaker Changes Law to Help Relative Facing – New Republic, The: Web Edition Articles – August 6, 2025 – page 1

1159: Alan Placa

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Alan Placa

Alan Placa was Rudy Giuliani’s fraternity mate and has been his close friend ever since. He has been accused by two men of molesting them. When Placa was suspended after the first accusation, Giuliani pronounced his innocence and hire him at his firm, Giuliani Partners where he continues to work.

Placa was in charge of dealing with sexual abuse allegations. Seriously! He was put in charge of dealing with allegations of abuse after he was investigated for abuse. He was the one who shuffled the priests around, paying off the families of abused children and sending the priests elsewhere to continue preying on children.

Report alleges abuse 1 of 44 pages
Chicago Sun-Times (IL)
May 9, 2021

1122: Jose Tirado

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Jose Tirado’s picture on warrant

Jose Tirado was a Seminole County Deputy until they learned he was using his access to investigation information to warn people that were on their way to meet a police officer who pretended to be an underage girl online so they could avoid being caught soliciting a minor.

They began investigating Tirado when several sting operations failed, with the target not showing up and even cutting off communication. They found that Tirado accessed investigation data frequently and even accessed recorded conversations of detectives. They found he sent texts to suspects on their way to meet their anticipated underage child. The text said that she was a fake and warned them to stay away. He will be arraigned on September 9th.

Seminole detective accused of assisting suspects - Allegedly warned people traveling for sex with minors July 30, 2023 | Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) Author/Byline: Amanda Rabines Orlando Sentinel | Page: 18 | Section: Main 616 Words Read News Document A detective with the Seminole County Sheriff's Office is facing more than a dozen felony charges for tipping off people traveling to have sex with minors, the agency said. On Thursday, Jose Tirado, a detective assigned to the SCSO Crimes Against Children Unit, was arrested for multiple counts of unlawful use of a two-way communication device, disclosure or use of confidential criminal justice information and unlawful use of a computer, network or electronic device resulting in the interruption or impairment of government operation. The Sheriff's Office said investigators discovered Tirado covertly contacted suspects to warn them that they were involved in an undercover operation and began a criminal investigation into Tirado in April. An investigation determined Tirado repeatedly warned suspects that the minors they were traveling to meet for sex were detectives using undercover personas, allowing suspects to avoid arrest. According to an affidavit in support of Tirado's arrest, his misconduct came to light amid a "traveler operation" that began Feb. 1, in which undercover detectives posing as girls sought to lure suspects to meet them with promises of sex. During the operation, a detective posing as a 14-year-old girl made contact with a person known as "Manuel" and arranged to meet with him on Feb. 3. But just before the meeting was to take place, Manuel texted the detective a screenshot of messages he had received, which investigators later learned were sent by Tirado: "She is fake dude, stay away" "I'm trying to help you out, delete and go away" "Don't do it, your [sic] going to get caught" Manuel stopped communicating with the detective and never showed up, according to the affidavit. He remains at large. An investigation determined that five suspects allegedly were sent warnings by Tirado. Two, including Manuel, didn't show up for meetings and were not arrested. One showed up anyway and was arrested. The other two skipped the meetings but were later identified and apprehended, though their arrests were delayed, one by 10 days and the other by 20. Using data from phones they seized from the apprehended suspects, detectives were able to trace the messages to an account on Pinger, which allows users to send texts over the internet. That account traced back to a Gmail account that Tirado had used in his undercover work - and was registered in the name of a persona that he had used in "traveler operations" like the one he sabotaged, the affidavit said. Additional analysis determined that the Pinger account was created on Tirado's agency-issued iPhone. Tirado was suspended on April 21, after 13 years of employment with the Sheriff's Office. He joined the Crimes Against Unit as a detective in 2015, according to the release. In the position, his duties included investigating allegations of criminal child abuse and abandonment, investigating allegations of sexual based offenses against minors and apprehending those individuals who would travel to meet a minor for the purposes of sexual activity. Kim Cannaday, Seminole County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said the Sheriff's Office is in the process of terminating Tirado's position. Before it is finalized Tirado is entitled to a meeting with the sheriff to discuss the foregoing violations and proposed discipline, she said in an email to the Orlando Sentinel. Criminal and administrative investigations into Tirado are ongoing. On Thursday, Tirado was booked in the John E. Polk Correctional Facility on a $65,000 bond and placed on a monitoring system. The Sheriff's Office did not share Tirado's mugshot citing Florida law that exempts photos of law enforcement from public release. Sheriff Dennis Lemma said Tirado was responsible for "protecting the most vulnerable members of our society, our children, and the actions [Tirado] are alleged to have committed instead aided those who would seek to victimize children by allowing them to avoid arrest and prosecution." arabines@orlandosentinel.com
July 30, 2023 | Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Author/Byline: Amanda Rabines Orlando Sentinel |

1114: Michael James Shover

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Michael James Shover is the pastor at Pella’s Christ the Redeemer Church. He was at the Iowa State Capitol. He got in a shouting match with LGBTIQA protesters and said they were all devoid of morals. He then asked “Why is pedophilia wrong?” The video went viral and he claims criticism is out of context and that it was a rhetorical question. Maybe so, but why does he entertain the question at all?

The problem for Mr. Shover is that there are hundreds upon hundreds of pastoral pedophiles. More than 700 just in Texas Baptist churches. If he wants to criticize a group for lack of morality and values, get a mirror.

Pastor Michael Shover at Iowa State Capitol
posted by The Des Moines Register

1078: Jana Bradford

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Jana Bradford claimed a tough-on-crime record in her successful campaign for Prosecuting Attorney in the Ninth Judicial District in Arkansas. That may be true, so long as the criminal is not her uncle, instead she spent years using her influence to help him evade justice again and again.

When her uncle Barry Walker’s home was searched in June 2022, authorities found over 400 homemade videos of Child Sexual Abuse Material that showed Walker raping children as well as thousands of images and videos of CSAM. The videos go back 25 years and involve child from ages 2 to 14. One victim in the films was a 4-year-old girl Bradford had disputed when a prosecutor in a neighboring county sought to prosecute Walker. Walker pleaded guilty to over 100 felony counts involving raping or molesting 31 children, some several times. He got 39 life sententes, 1710 years, with no chance of parole.

But how was he able to abuse children for 25 years despite children coming forward to authorities? His girlfriend and another niece have been charged with felonies for allowing child sex abuse. His brother is charged with failure to report. Bradford has not been charged yet but an investigation is underway.

The first child to report Walker was just 8 years old. That was in 1999. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 5 years but released after 1.5 years for “good behavior.” He ignore the part of the sentence requiring him to avoid being alone with children. In 2004, a 3-year-old complained that he had touched her inappropriately. More girls came forward in 2006, 2010, and 2014. The case in 2014 involved a 4-year-old girl. None of these reports led to charges against him. The explanation for that is in sealed records.

Bradford wrote a letter to the prosecutor for the 2014 accusation accusing the 4 year old of repeating a story her parents made up, claiming Walker passed a lie detector test, and claiming Walker had never been alone with her. The letter worked and the prosecutor did not charge Walker.

In 2018, despite her knowledge of these accusations and reports to authorities, she wrote an application to get his name removed from the sex offender list. This is the letter here.

Judge recuses in rapist suit Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) May 26, 2023
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR)
May 26, 2023

1041: Fulton Brock

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Fulton Brock was a Maricopa County Supervisor. He is accused of using his influence with former Sherriff Joe Arpaio to protect his wife and daughter who were accused of sexually abusing a young boy for three years. Their daughter is alleged to have started abusing the boy when he was thirteen. He says they began grooming him when he was eleven.

The boy’s church, school, even his parents failed to alert police to the abuse which allowed it to continue for an additional year. They told their church and their church hushed it up. The victim’s family told his school not to allow Susan Brock visit him, to call the police, but they did nothing, allowing the visits to continue.

After her arrest, Susan Brock pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted sexual conduct with a minor. She got a good deal and was sentenced to thirteen years. Rachel Brock, Fulton and Susan Brock’s daughter, started abusing the boy when he was thirteen and she was eighteen. She was given a one-year deferred sentence which means if she does not re-offend she will have a spotless criminal record.

The press named the victim which I am certain made this more difficult for him.

Brock knew for at least a year that his wife was raping the young boy. He did nothing except seek some lawyers who specialize in dealing with sexual abuse cases. He got Sheriff Arpaio to be able to talk to his wife privately at the jail, their conversation unrecorded as what they norm. He also lied to the police while telling them that Arpaio was his friend.

His parents, his school, his church all failed to protect him. And then the media names him and his girlfriend, parents, and friends say he was manipulative and manipulated the 48-year-old and her adult daughter who sexually abused and groomed him for years. This is a sad, sad story.

Probation for Rachel Brock in sexArizona Republic Phoenix, Arizona · Thursday, December 08, 2011 case
Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona · Thursday, December 08, 2011

1028: Andrew Kloster

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Andrew Kloster is a raging misogynist, at least that is how he describes himself. During the Trump Administration, he was appointed to the Dept. of Transportation. Before that he worked for the Heritage Foundation. He also worked for former Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Gableman’s attempt to overthrow the Wisconsin presidential election and Kloster falsely claimed the election was stolen. Rep. Matt Gaetz recently appointed him as his congressional counsel.

He posted “Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish.” in the comments on an op-ed arguing government has no business legislating against bestiality or suggesting it is hypocritical to make homosexuality legal and bestiality illegal. In February, 2023, he tweeted, ““You know what I need? I need a woman who looks like she got punched.” The Daily Beast has archived several of his tweets.

In 2022, he was arrested for assault on a family member, causing bodily harm. A woman took out a protective order against him. He has a jury trial scheduled for August 14, 2023. You can track the case at Collins County Online Search: Case Number – 001-80279-2023, The State of Texas VS. Kloster, Andrew

His comments promoting physical and sexual abuse of women are not criminal, only immoral.

Same page, case events and charges Assault Causes Bodily Injury Family Member

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