Category: Sexual Torture

1271: Kyle Lewter

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Kyle Hayden Lewter

Kyle Hayden Lewter was chair of the Madison County Young Republicans and had worked for Rep. Mo Brooks and Sen. Jeff Sessions. He was working for Alabama State Senator Tom Butler. He has been indicted for the sexual torture and murder of a fifty-four year old man.

His defense lawyer suggests that they will present a mental illness defense and are presenting stories in the media to support that idea.

Former Alabama GOP operative accused of murder - al.com (AL) - April 11, 2024 - page 1 April 11, 2024 | al.com (AL) | William Thornton; wthornton@al.com Lawyers for a man with a background in state politics accused of murder have filed a motion to transfer him to a mental facility. Attorneys representing Kyle Hayden Lewter, 36, have also filed a motion to have him evaluated by a psychologist. His preliminary hearing has been waived, according to court records. Lewter is currently being held in Madison County Jail without bond. According to WAFF, Lewter's lawyers argue in documents that he has severe mental health issues. He reportedly "went berzerk" while in jail and hallucinated seeing his parents and a state senator he worked for as a campaign manager. Lewter displayed manic behavior and had to be restrained by jail officials, according to the motion. Lewter, who had several connections to Republican politics in north Alabama, allegedly sodomized his victim with a plunger on March 6 before killing him, according to court doucments. He is charged with murder and sexual torture in the March 6 death of 54-year-old Harvest resident Derek Franklin Walls. The suspect and victim knew each other, according to authorities. He is accused of killing Walls with a hammer. Lewter was identified in a 2022 social media post as the chairman of Madison County Young Republicans. He also reportedly had a paid position with state Sen. Tom Butler and said in a 2017 interview that he worked on campaigns for ex-U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks and former U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions. © 2024 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved.
Former Alabama GOP operative accused of murder – al.com (AL) – April 11, 2024 – page 1
April 11, 2024 | al.com (AL) | William Thornton; wthornton@al.com

1146: Miracle Meadows

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Miracle Meadows

Miracle Meadows was a boarding school for troubled youth in Salem, West Virginia. It was under the aegis of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Founded in 1988, it operated until it was closed down in 2014.

A desperate student drank a cleaning product, was taken to the hospital where she begged for help. An investigation into the school began and the school’s education status was revoked.

The school has settled multiple lawsuits and face more since the Stage has increased the Statute of Limitations. The abuses alleged include isolation, sexual abuse, shackling, filth, and more abuses. Some children acquired STDs from being abused. Two children fell pregnant and had abortions arranged by the school.

Susan Gayle Clark was sentenced to six months in prison and five years probation for neglect and failure to report.

The school settled for $52 million in 2020 in a lawsuit filed by 29 students. Another lawsuit was settled in August, 2023, for $50 million, filed by older students who were able to file when the stature of limitations was raised to 36.

Miracle Meadows abuse settlements reach $100M August 30, 2023 | Coal Valley News (Madison, WV) Author/Byline: Roger Adkins radkins@hdmediallc.com | Section: News 704 Words | Readability: Lexile: 1520, grade level(s): >12 Read News Document Years after being starved, beaten and subjected to various forms of torture as children, former students of the now-defunct Miracle Meadows School in Salem will receive a total of $100 million in civil lawsuit settlements. The amount includes settlements from two consolidated cases brought by dozens of former students and their families. A 2017 filing against the former nonprofit Seventh Day Adventist boarding school in Harrison County was resolved in 2020 for $52 million. Another consolidated case resolved this month increased the total amount to approximately $100 million. The settlements are believed to be a record for such cases in the state, according to attorneys representing the students and their families. The former students were represented by attorneys Guy D'Andrea of Laffey Bucci & Kent, Jesse Forbes of Forbes Law Offices, and Scott Long of Hendrickson & Long. According to the lawsuits, the students suffered sexual, physical and psychological abuse at the hands of staff and administrators while the school was in operation between 1987 and 2014. Children were shackled, confined in isolation rooms for months and forced to live in degrading conditions. They were also starved, beaten and deprived of medical care, the attorneys said. "Every penny of this settlement symbolizes the stolen innocence, the muted screams, and the countless tears that every one of our clients experienced at such a young age," D'Angela said. "Our children deserved better, and today, they reclaim a piece of their dignity." D'Angela added, "Even as a former homicide prosecutor, I found these atrocities to be beyond anything imaginable. These children suffered through abuses that no person should ever encounter."
August 30, 2023 | Coal Valley News (Madison, WV)
Author/Byline: Roger Adkins
The school was raided by authorities and closed in 2014 after a student poisoned themselves with a cleaning agent and the school was forced to take them for medical help. According to attorneys, the student was alone with medical staff long enough to beg for help, prompting a report to authorities and an investigation that began to uncover the abuses. Forbes said the details of the case "wouldn't be believed in a Stephen King novel." "To know that they actually happened in the West Virginia hills is absolutely devastating," he said. "Children deserve to be loved, nurtured, and treated with care, not handcuffed, abused, and thrown in isolation cells with a coffee can for a bathroom. To do this once is beyond shocking but to do it to hundreds of children for decades is truly unfathomable." The school, founded in 1987 by Susan Gayle Clark, promised to provide a Christian boarding school environment for troubled youth 6 to 17 years of age. Clark, who was also the school's director, was convicted of child neglect and failing to report. She received six months for misdemeanor child neglect creating risk of injury and 30 days for a misdemeanor charge of failure to report, along with five years of probation and community service. Law enforcement tried to investigate the school for years, the attorneys said, but many of the alleged perpetrators were from other countries and were brought to the school on work visas. As a result, the attorneys said, administrators could simply send them back to their home countries to evade accountability. "This is really a victory not only for these children but also for our society as a whole," Long said. "What we hope this does is continue to carry the message that our society will not allow actions such as these to go unchecked."
The case could result in a financial shortfall for the state-run Board of Risk Insurance Management, according to testimony given in legislative committee meetings earlier this year. BRIM provided insurance to the school and was responsible for paying $27 million of the first settlement. In 2020, the Legislature approved House Bill 4559, which increased the civil statute of limitations for child abuse cases from 22 years to 36. During a meeting of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary in April, BRIM Director Melody Duke said the change allowed the children to file lawsuits years later, but BRIM wasn't able to collect premiums from Miracle Meadows after 2014. Duke told lawmakers BRIM would likely need help paying the settlements. "I'm going to need some funding to be able to pay those settlements," Duke said. "We'll be looking to the Legislature to hopefully maybe get an appropriation to be able to fund those losses." Copyright (c) 2023 H-D Media Company, LLC

659: Ronald Ilg

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Ronald Ilg was a neonatologist and medical director who ran as a moderate conservative candidate for the Orchard Prairie school board. He lost his campaign.

While his second wife was divorcing him, he was trying to scare her into coming back to him. At the same time, he was carrying on a BDSM relationship with another woman who he forced compliance from by forcing her into an underground storage tank until she agreed to obey him. While on vacation with her in Mexico, he choked her while she struggled to breathe, getting her to agree to sign a sex slave contract signed in blood with their fingerprints.

He was distraught at losing his wife and attempted to engage thugs on the dark web to beat her, break her hands, kidnap her, force her to take heroin to addict, and other various schemes he conjured up. He put money in escrow to pay them upon completion. This included threatening to addict her son to heroin, beat her father, and kill her dog. The FBI were already researching this, alerted by the woman he was having an affair with. She thought he was trying to hire someone to kill his wife.

Ex-doctor who pleaded guilty in dark web kidnapping plot gets 8 years in prison The Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington · Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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Spokane, Washington · Wednesday, January 25, 2023

590: Mack Charles Andrews

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Mack Charles Andrews was the pastor of the United Pentecostal Church in Thomasville, Alabama. I confess what this man did has haunted me. He is extraordinarily evil. He raped several children. And now a content warning, do not go further if details of abuse sicken or trigger you. This is one of the most evil of all the predators I have written about.

Because I don’t want anyone to accidentally see what he did to one poor child, I will set it in white text on the white page so you cannot accidentally see and must highlight the text. I’m sorry if that seems excessive, but I wish I had never read it myself.

“Jane” was seven years old when Andrews began “grooming” her and sodomizing her with objects. When she was nine, he raped her on her father’s grave. He said he would put flowers on her grave if she told.

Jane was not the only victim. Several other children came forward with similar allegations. Andrews’ own daughter claimed she witnessed his abuse. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to fifteen years but was released after just five years because he claims he made the plea agreement when his diabetes was out of control. Diabetes! He is not even on parole though he must register as a sex offender.

Reportedly he has moved to Texas to start a church there.

Former Alabama pastor pleads guilty The Selma Times-Journal Selma, Alabama · Tuesday, November 17, 2015
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Selma, Alabama · Tuesday, November 17, 2015

150: Ralph Lee Aaron

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Ralph Lee Aaron was a conservative Southern Baptist pastor at Grace Christian Fellowship Church in Covington County, Alabama. He previously served at two other churches. When he was arrested he was charged with more than 150 offenses, most involved possession of child exploitation materials. He was also charged with sodomy, sexual abuse, and sexual torture of four boys between eight and twelve years old. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms.

Selma Times-Journal
30 Oct 2009
Montgomery Advertiser
30 Oct 2009