Kent Hovind is one of the worst people I’ve ever heard of, and one of a limited number of people I’d describe as actually evil. I don’t use that word casually, either, but I do think this article adequately describes why I make an exception for him. He’s a dreadful human being in a way that I don’t think even his counterparts Ken Ham and Ray Comfort are. All of them are grifters and all of them are wrong about young Earth creationism, obviously, and the anti-science message all of them push is harmful, and so are a bunch of other things they say and do, but to the best of my knowledge neither Ham nor Comfort quite qualify for the “evil” tag in the way Hovind does.
I discovered Kunt Koresh (I think that was an Aron Ra-ism) in the course of exploring atheism on Youtube, don’t quite remember how; this would’ve been about 2016, I suppose, just after he got out of jail where he’d been for several years and was starting to make his grotesque presence known again. The instance of the child drowning on his property was the first really major new thing I heard against him (and his insistence that the child’s family were, you know, OK with the boy meeting an untimely death at his unsafe theme park has always angered me; what must have he have done to those poor people to convince them not to sue the living shit out of him?); the evident pedophile Hovind is accused of sheltering is another more recent story, and as for why he might be doing that… well, that’s something we can only speculate about. But he does have some track record of associating with abominable people, e.g. Jim Bob Duggar, who notably covered up his own son’s misbehaviour on that front…