By Sherry Hamilton on May 5, 2021 Billy Hooper William Wellington “Billy” Hooper of Mathews was sentenced to life in prison on Monday by Judge David Novak of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Richmond. The sentence came after a jury trial last September, during which Hooper was convicted of four counts of crimes involving minors. At that time, it took the jury less than an hour and a half to deliberate before returning guilty verdicts on charges of conspiracy to produce child pornography, production of child pornography, and two counts of coercion and enticem...