Manuel Joseph Barraza was the former El Paso Criminal District Court Judge. He was elected in 2008 and even before being sworn in, he began soliciting bribes to use his position to influence cases.
In the case involving Jane Doe 1, he solicited a bribe of sex, promising to influence the outcome of her case.
He was sentenced to five years in prison. Upon release, he began practicing law despite being disbarred and was again arrested.
His federal case number is 3:2009cr00978.
Curtis Cochran was the Swain County, North Carolina, Sheriff. He was elected in 2006 and served five consecutive terms until his arrest and suspension in June 2025.
Swain County includes the Cherokee Reserve which belongs to and is governed by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. That puts parts of Swain County under the jurisdiction of the tribe as well as the state and county.
The State of North Carolina has charged Cochran with felonious restraint, assault on a female, sexual battery and solicitation to commit prostitution. Cochran is also charged under the Cherokee Code with two counts of oppression in office and one count of abusive sexual contact.
Two women have come forward alleging very similar assaults. According to them, they were offered a ride by Cochran who then touched them, exposed his genitals, and assaulted them after offering them a ride.
A third woman came forward and a grand jury indicted him for 2nd-degree rape.
Jon Stanard was a Utah State Representative until he resigned in 2018. At first it was unclear why this fervent family-values politician resigned, until news came out that he was under investigation for using taxpayer funds to pay for the hotel rooms when he met with a sex worker. They also investigated his use of a state-provided cellphone for making arrangements.
This seems to have been consensual and would not normally be included in the list of GOP predators. However, using taxpayer funds takes this a little bit past hypocrisy. As to hypocrisy, in 2017, Stanard voted to increase the penalty for people who solicited a sex worker.
Brad Namdar was a GOP primary candidate contending for US House District 32, He made trafficking his key campaign issue after already making a reputation as an anti-trafficking crusader. However, a sex worker reported he twice solicited her for sex and the second time, he didn’t pay her. He was also reported for touching a high school student on the bottom when he was working as a teacher and soccer coach. The girl did not report this until she graduated high school.
An anti-trafficking advocate soliciting a sex worker is hypocrisy, but would not put Namdar on this list. Except, he didn’t pay. Additionally, he is accused of inappropriately touching and harassing a minor student.
A teacher was at a football game when some students called him over. One young woman, a recent graduate, said that Namdar had contacted her on Facebook. She was uncomfortable and uncertain what to do. She reported two inappropriate instances, one asking her to meet him in the locker room on a Sunday evening. Another time he is alleged to have touched her inappropriately. She was a minor at the time.
Namsar sued, claiming defamation. He lost his case and he lost his appeal.
David Whitmire is a Commissioner representing Precinct 3 in Liberty County, Texas. His previous claim to fame was mocking dog advocates by barking and woofing with county judge Jay Knight, prompting calls for their recall. Now, he has been indicted, charged with sexual assault, solicitation of prostitution, and official oppression.
According to the indictment he is accused of asking someone for sex in exchange for help with child custody, offering to pay that person for sex, and sexually assaulting them.
When announcing the indictment, the District Attorney said, “Public officials must be held to a higher standard. When they betray the trust placed in them by the community, they damage not only their own integrity but also the public’s confidence in our system as a whole. I refuse to stand by or be complicit in any “good old boy” system, and by now, that should be clear.”
Ned B. Hansen was the fire chief in Tremonton, Utah and at Jackson Hole before that. In January 2025, he was arrested after allegedly sharing child sexual abuse material. Despite the advice of police and the district attorney, he was released by the judge, who turned out to be his alleged partner in preying on children, #1408 Kevin Christensen. Incredibly, the Judge Christensen did not disclose his sexual relationship with Hansen. Less surprisingly, he also did not disclose their alleged mutual interest in child sexual abuse material. Hansen was charged with eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. He is now being held without bail in Weber County Jail.
The case began with a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The user info had an address and phone number connected to Hansen. They carried out a search warrant and found eight instances of Hansen sharing material with children between ten and twelve.
Since his arrest, a child told her parents she thought he sexually abused her. She was less than ten years old. The investigation revealed that he had discussions on social media messaging that corroborate her allegation. Two of Hansen’s family members have sued him in civil court alleging that he sexually abused them, one since 2018 and the other since 2020.
Ruben A. Garcia was an associate pastor at Betania Baptist Church in Austin, Texas. He was arrested in 2017 for sexually assaulting two children. He was charged with two counts of sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact. When he was arrested for one investigation, they discovered there was a warrant for his arrest for another investigation in another county into child sexual assault.
He avoided jail time in a plea deal where he pled guilty to enticing a child. That’s not considered a sex crime so no requirement to register as a sex offender was imposed. He was sentenced to ten years deferred adjudication which means if he goes ten years without offending, there will be no conviction on his record at all.
Coy C. Privette was a retired Baptist minister, a former North Carolina state legislator, and a Cabarrus County Commissioner when he was charged with aiding and abetting prostitution. He was also the president of the Christian Action League. He resigned from the League immediately to protect them from his scandal.
This project does not track consensual adult activities, including patronizing sex workers. He is included because he stopped payment on the checks claiming they were stolen. If you renege on a contract with a sex worker, it’s not really consensual, is it?
He denied the allegations but the police had video of him booking the room and taking the woman there. He pled guilty.
Bob Allen represented Florida District 32 from 2000 to 2008. His career came to an end when he offered $20 to perform oral sex on a man at a local park. Sadly for him, the man was an undercover cop and he was arrested. Normally, I would not include a closeted gay man caught being gay or caught trying to buy the services of a sex worker. But his excuse is special. He blamed the weather and his fear of black men for why he offered to pay a man for sex.
Republican Sexual Predators 