Silence in a small town: Feds say Brad Reger abused dozens, but wasn't stopped for years

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Five years ago, Zack Winfrey was working at a private fly fishing camp in Idaho, not far from Yellowstone National Park and decided to write to the man he says molested him for eight years as a child.


“I went into my room and I just sat down and handwrote that letter,” Winfrey said. “I was planning on mailing it to him, and I thought, ‘That’s dumb. I’ll never know if he reads it.’”

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The headline on the letter, which is posted on the Quora.com website, read, “Brad Reger is a child molester,” and eventually prompted Reger to reach out to him on Facebook Messenger on Sept. 1, 2018, Winfrey said. Zack Winfrey’s Quora post alleging sexual molestation helped result in federal charges against Brad Reger, 67, licensed nurse practitioner and former youth group leader from Susanville.

”Have you been sending me messages?” the first note from Reger asked. “Sherlock Holmes over here with the great detective work,” Winfrey replied.

Then, Reger wrote, “I am deeply disturbed by all you have said. I do not remember most of what you have said.”

Today, Winfrey’s online post is filed in Sacramento federal court as Exhibit 1 in the case of USA v Bradley Earl Reger. Reger, 67, is being held in custody without bail.



Reger is a licensed nurse practitioner and former youth group leader from Susanville, a small town in Lassen County. He faces charges of abusing three minors in Susanville, Nevada, Virginia, Poland and the Philippines between 2006 and 2014.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Reger left his Lassen County home and businesses at least 235 times to visit foreign countries. As federal agents prepared to arrest Reger in July, they became so concerned about a trip he was taking in Ireland that they sought and obtained a search warrant allowing them to track him through his cellphone upon his return to the U.S.






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[gay texan]

1. Not a drag queen n/t

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. nope. A religious man.

[2naSalit]

4. Another...

[UpInArms]

3. There are monsters among us

This one deserves the death penalty (and I don’t believe in the death penalty).

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. I hope he gets life. Clearly he's been molesting world wide

there might be hundreds of victims

[hunter]

5. Small town Evangelical Christian U.S.A. is a hunting ground for these predators.

They financed this guy's globetrotting lifestyle for decades.

If your religion teaches you to deny reality then you'll believe damned near anything, even that sexual predators like this guy ( or Donald Trump... ) are great men.

One of the great faults of this country is that we romanticize rural communities and pride ourselves for our tolerance of anti-intellectual religions.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

8. I hope the victims sue the responsible churches out of existence

[barbaraann]

6. CA Gov. Deukmejian enabled this child molester and MANY OTHERS.

He cut funding for a very effective child abuse prevention program. This is all I can find on the internet and I cannot get past the paywall:

Child Protection Funds Running Out as Abuse of ...
Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1990-06-1...
Jun 14, 1990 — The money for the 4 1/2-year-old program runs out at the end of this month, and Gov. George Deukmejian has stricken any future funding from his ...

I lived in California at that time and knew a woman who gave child abuse presentations to young children through this program. She told me that usually after each presentation a child would come up to her and reveal that he/she was being molested. Gov. Duekmejian probably enabled the molestation of THOUSANDS of children and I will never get over my anger at him and the Republicans who supported him.