Co-Author Of Books By Mike Huckabee And Roy Moore Accused Of Child Molestation: Report

A well-known Christian author who co-wrote books with Mike Huckabee and Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was twice accused of child molestation, according to a new report.

A co-author and contributing writer to books by Mike Huckabee and Roy Moore has been accused of child molestation in two separate lawsuits, according to a report by Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski and Ilan Ben-Meir. 

John Perry co-authored Huckabee’s 2009 Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America, and contributed to his 2007 book Character Makes a Difference: Where I’m From, Where I’ve Been, and What I Believe. Perry also co-authored Roy Moore’s 2009 book, So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom.

Perry also co-authored books with several top leaders of the southern Baptist Convention, including Dr. Richard Land, former Southern Baptist Convention president James T. Draper, and Frank Page, the president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, and several books with pastor John F. MacArthur.

“A 2012 police investigation of Perry’s alleged offenses found that ‘the allegations of sexual battery were sustained’ but that the statute of limitations had expired,” Buzzfeed reports.

Buzzfeed points to several legal documents, including “a sworn affidavit submitted during divorce proceedings,” in which “Perry’s ex-wife attests that she ‘filed for divorce as a result of Mr. Perry’s inappropriate marital conduct, to which he admitted to in his Response to Interrogatories numbers 1 and 2.’ Throughout the court documents, ‘inappropriate marital conduct’ appears to be a euphemism for the alleged molestation.”

Another filing, submitted by Perry’s ex-wife’s attorney earlier in the same proceedings, refers to Perry’s “admitted sexual abuse” of a minor child. Perry’s response to that filing — also submitted prior to his ex-wife’s affidavit — does not deny the abuse, or that Perry admitted it. Instead, Perry claims that “there was never any testimony or other evidence of any kind presented” to the court, “or any orders or findings of fact […] regarding any alleged sexual abuse of any minor child relative to the parties’ divorce or any other legal proceeding.” 

This claim is not, however, necessarily incompatible with Perry’s ex-wife’s claim that Perry “admitted to” the alleged “inappropriate marital conduct” during the discovery process, because it appears that those findings were not technically “presented” to the court.

Likewise, a police investigation launched in 2012 found the allegations against Perry “were sustained,” according to a police department spokesperson, but that statute of limitations had passed.

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