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A jury trial date was scheduled for three out of the four suspects accused in the First United Methodist Church child abuse case Wednesday morning in Christian Circuit Court.
A trial date was set in Christian Circuit Court for three of four women facing child abuse charges that allegedly occurred at the First United Methodist Church daycare in Hopkinsville over two years ago. Former church pastor Paige Williams and daycare workers Allison Simpson and Nina Morgan, along with their defense attorneys and Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Boling appeared in Christian Circuit Court before Judge John Atkins Wednesday morning. Judge Atkins set a jury trial for the three women for November 15-19 with the case of former daycare employee Abby Leach continued for a possible res...
A trial date was set Wednesday morning for three of the four women charged in connection with alleged child ab...
Paige Williams and Abby Leach The attorneys for a former pastor and a former daycare worker indicted last week on additional charges of child abuse that allegedly occurred at the First United Methodist Church daycare appeared virtually in Christian Circuit Court Wednesday morning for an arraignment. A grand jury returned superseding indictments last Friday for the former pastor at the church, Paige Williams, and former daycare employee Abby Leach, charging them with eight counts of first-degree complicity of criminal abuse of a child 12 or under. They were previously indicted in August 2019 o...
Paige Williams and Abby Leach The Christian County Grand Jury returned superseding indictments for a former pastor and former daycare worker at First United Methodist Church who are facing child-abuse-related charges. Former Pastor Paige Williams and Abby Leach were indicted Friday on eight counts of first-degree complicity to criminal abuse of a child under 12. According to the superseding indictments, Williams and Leach “intentionally breached their legal duty to protect” eight minors less than 13-months old from a situation that might cause “serious physical injury, torture, cruel co...