1473: Silas Shelton

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Silas Shelton

Silas Shelton is still listed as the pastor at Blanchester Community Ministries. He is out on $250,000 bail for an array of crimes against children including rape and sexual battery. He was indicted for abusing one child, a member of his congregation, over the course of six years but police expect that there will be other victims as that is common with most sexual predators.

Shelton is an anti-gay bigot who has attended school board meeting to advocate against books that have gay characters and has said the Pride flag makes him sick. At one board meeting, he said, “I don’t think kids should ever question their sexuality. I don’t think kids should ever explore their sexuality. I don’t think any of that stuff ever ought to be in our school” Meanwhile he has been charged with grooming and raping a minor child.

He is charged with multiple counts of rape, gross sexual imposition, and unlawful sexual contact with a minor, as well as sexual battery, arson, aggravated arson, telecomm harassment and menacing by stalking.

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1472: John C. Sapp

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John C. Sapp was a youth pastor at the conservative Maranatha Fellowship church in Dover, Delaware. They ascribe to the anti-gay, anti-choice Conservative Mennonite Statement of Practice. In February, 2020, he confessed that he was raping a minor in the congregation. But only to preempt her going public as she had already told someone.

The pastor informed the police who investigated further. They soon learned she was not his only victim. He preyed on the minor girls in the church’s youth group.

He was charged with 89 sex abuse crimes against children, including:

  • Continuous Sexual Abuse Of A Child (2 Counts)
  • Unlawful Sexual Contact Second Degree (33 Counts)
  • Sexual Abuse Of A Child By A Person Of Trust First Degree (29 Counts)
  • Sexual Abuse Of A Child By A Person Of Trust Second Degree (3 Counts)
  • Rape Fourth Degree Sexual Intercourse Victim Less Than 18 Years Old (13 Counts)
  • Rape Fourth Degree Sexual Penetration Of Another Person Without Consent  (7 Counts)
  • Loitering On Property Of A State- Supported School, College, Or University (2 Counts)

He pleaded guilty to three counts in a plea agreement. He was sentenced to six years in prison, the bare minimum despite blaming the victims just a few days before sentencing, claiming his actions were unintentional, and that others failed him. He thought it was unfair for him to serve any time at all.

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1471: Les Hughey

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Les Hughey is the founder of Highlands Church in Scottsdale, Arizona. Highlands is a megachurch with around fifty staff. Before founding Highlands, he was a youth pastor at Scottsdale Bible Church and the First Baptist Church in Modesto, California. He left his position in Modesto after several allegations of sexual abuse of the girls and young women at the church emerged. The church sent him off without disclosing his actions to the congregation. He resigned from Highlands.

Police in Scottsdale have compiled a 100-page report on allegations that go from his early career in Modesto through his years at Scottsdale Bible Church and involve dozens of young people. At least seven women came forward in 2018 alleging his sexual abuse as a youth pastor in Modesto. They were teens, he was in his twenties. Dozens more allege a toxic culture of abuse at Scottsdale Bible.

The allegations are similar in describing how he created a culture of physical touching in the youth group with kids ranging from 15 to 19, giving each other massages, and then touching the genitalia of those he massaged. There are allegations of nudity, indecent exposure, groping, and in some cases, raping minor girls.

Of course, he was allowed to continue due to organizational culture of covering up abuse and passing the child molester on to become another church’s problem.

The Modesto Bee
Sun, Jul 17, 2022 ·Page C1

1470: Michael Brown

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Michael L. Brown

Michael L. Brown, founder of FIRE School of Ministry was investigated for sexual misconduct and the claims were found to be valid. He abused his position as minister in relationships with 2 women, one was 18 and told to call him Daddy. The Firefly report was released in April, 2025.

This is being passed off as merely errors in judgment. Sadly, despite the extensive report substantiating the allegations against Brown, the Elder Accountability Team not only ignored the findings, cleared Brown to return to ministry, they also criticized the report for being public.

Distressed by the actions of the Elders, a must more substantive report on allegations was released in May that details allegations of spiritual abuse of more people. Both reports are below.

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1469: Michael Bo Peacock

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Michael Bo Peacock

Michael Bo Peacock was a extremely successful basketball coach, coaching the True Texas Hoops, a basketball academy, and also serving as the head coach at Grapevine Faith Christian School in Texas. He was also a co-conspirator in a multi-state conspiracy to extort children to produce child sexual abuse material which he and his co-conspirator uploaded and shared.

In September, 2025, he was sentenced to forty years in prison followed by twenty years supervised release for his role in this conspiracy. This was after he pleaded guilty to one count of of conspiracy to produce child pornography [child sexual abuse material] and one count of enticing a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity. His partern in the conspiracy was Daniel Perryman Collins of Louisiana. Collins is not on the list as he held no position of trust or power.

The two of them used threats and extortion to force children to produce child sexual abuse material. Between them, they exploited more than one hundred children, causing those children to produce CSAM that Collins and Peacock loaded to an overseas cloud account with an encryption key that allowed them to view each other’s files.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) – October 17, 2025 – page 1

1468: Michael S. Ritchason

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Michael S. Ritchason

Michael S. Ritchason is the Lead Pastor of Riverside Community Church and was elected to the City Council of Pekin, Illinois. He is also a former elementary school teacher. He was recently arrested for crimes against a juvenile, specifically disseminating harmful materials to a juvenile.

The definition of harmful to minors makes clear this is not about sex ed. “That quality of any description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse, when, taken as a whole, it predominately appeals to the prurient interest in sex of minors, is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community in the State as a whole with respect to what is suitable material for minors, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.”

1467: Paul Ingrassia

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Paul Ingrassia

Paul Ingrassia is Trump’s nominee for the Office of Special Counsel. His nomination is stalled due to several concerns about his lack of experience since he just graduated from law school in 2022 and of bias arising from his support for Nick Fuentes and his extremist views such as the absurd notion that the descendants of enslaved people owe reparations to the descendants of those who enslaved them. He called for Trump to declare Martial Law in 2020 and for the states that voted for Trump to secede if they failed to overturn the election.

In his work as White House liaison to Homeland Security, he was accused of sexual harassment arising from an incident when several people traveled to Florida. A subordinate’s room at their hotel was cancelled and he told her she would have to share his room. It is alleged he cancelled the room in order to force the situation.

A human resources complaint was filed by a colleage. Five people affirmed this happened. Three witnesses affirm that Ingrassia cancelled the reservation. The woman who ended up sharing Ingrassia’s room denied anything improper happened, though others say her work has suffered since the incident and that she is afraid of retaliation. The woman who filed the complaint withdrew it for fear of retaliation.

Ingrassia denies cancelling her reservation.

New Republic, The: Web Edition Articles
October 10, 2025

1466: Peter Bardunias

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Peter Bardunias

Peter Bardunias is Senior Vice President of Community Advancement for the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce. He has been charged with attempting to solicit a minor. This was an internet sting in which he thought he was talking to a fifteen-year-old but was really communicating with law enforcement. He was arrested when he traveled to meet the minor. He even brought candy.

The conversations with the purported minor were extremely graphic and violent. He promised to torture and rape the minor.

He is currently in custody.

Post-Star, The (Glens Falls, NY)
October 9, 2025

1464: Nick Fountain

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Nick Fountain

Nick Fountain was a Shippack Township Supervisor in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. After he was appointed to the Board in 2013, he won re-election and has been vice-chair for twelve years. He ran unsuccessfully for the Pennsylvania House in 2018 and Senate in 2022. He is also the owner of two daycare centers. He was charged with soliciting a minor and soliciting child sexual abuse material from a fourteen-year-old child in Maryland in September, 2025.

While awaiting extradition, another person filed a complaint alleging Fountain sexually abused him from when he was nine until he was sixteen. Additional charges were filed against Fountain. In all, fifty seven charges were filed against him.

  • 10 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse < 16
  • 15 counts of sexual assault
  • 15 counts of indecent assault without consent
  • 1 count of indecent assault < 13
  • 5 counts of indecent assault < 13
  • 5 counts of indecent assault < 16
  • 1 count endangering welfare of child (in role of guardian/parent)
  • 5 counts unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses

In light of these new allegations, officials in Montgomery County have charged Fountain with multiple counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, indecent assault without consent, indecent assault of someone less than 13 years old, unlawful sexual contact with a minor, endangering the welfare of children, and corruption of minors. The judge denied bail, and he’s scheduled for a preliminary hearing on October 15th.

Reporter, The (Lansdale, PA) – October 7, 2025 – page 1
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1464: Michael Jafferakos

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Michael Jafferakos

Michael Jafferakos was a youth basketball coach and intramural basketball commissioner for the Our Lady of Grace Athletic Association. Predators go where the children are. He has been sexually exploiting children to create child sexual abuse material or CSAM.

In interviews, Jafferakos admitted he paid multiple minors, some as young as fourteen, to produce CSAM over several years. He also confessed to sharing some of the CSAM with others for money.

The investigation began when a mother in Wisconsin found a sexually explicit video on her son’s phone. Further investigation revealed Jafferakos met the boy on SnapChat and induced him to make a sexually explicit video which Jafferakos paid him for. He had paid him fifteen times over some months.

Investigators have found two victims from the program where he coaches.

He is currently being held without bail and faces a minimum of fifteen years in prison if convicted.

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Hoops coach at B’klyn Catholic school got kids – New York Daily News (NY) – September 26, 2025 – page CS14