Republican Child Abuse Criminal Scandals

Physically attacked his wife while driving on a highway with their child in the vehicle, stole her phone, and fled with their child after leaving her on the side of the road

Ran his teenage daughter and another woman off the road while screaming that he was "going to kill" them

Suffocated a student who was only 4 years old to the point that they "went limp" and taped at least five additional students' mouths shut simply because they were talking during class during his time as headmaster of a Christian school he founded

Sexually and physically abused her adopted children along with her husband

Armed himself with a gun while experiencing what his aunt told police was a psychotic episode and got in a physical altercation with his minor children who wound up stabbing him twice to protect themselves and disarm him and was found to be in possession of thirty firearms and psychedelic mushrooms when police arrived

Threw his phone in a rage and struck his less than 14-year-old foster child in the leg resulting in a cut and bruise during an argument over not cleaning their room

Shot a 12-year-old girl in the head and then buried her body after kidnapping her from her home

Spanked a child under his care in the bottom so hard that it caused bruising and admitted to police officers that he "would agree it was excessive"

Mentally and emotionally abused his minor child by implying they will "burn in hell" and spitefully wished they will become ill any time they "see or touch something" they enjoyed over a series of texts and emails that resulted in his estranged wife being granted a restraining order against him

Struck his three-year-old son in the face and also yanked him around by his hair

Strangled his wife multiple times, once kicked her out of their car on the side of the highway when she was pregnant, struck his child leaving a handprint and hit another child with a door leaving a bruise over a yearslong period

Put cocaine and MDMA into his 15- and 16-year-old granddaughters’ ice cream at a Dairy Queen and was caught in the act on the store's video surveillance system