New accusations have been made in opposition to a slain choose in Letcher County, KY. Decide Kevin Mullins, who was assassinated in his chambers by the county’s Sheriff, Shawn “Mickey” Stines, was alleged to have run or participated in a “sex-for-favors” scandal involving sheriff’s deputies and inmates.
In September 2024, Sheriff Stines was filmed on safety cameras partaking with Mullins in his chambers, making cellphone calls on each his and the choose’s cell telephones, after which firing eight photographs, killing the choose. Later, it could come out that Stines first used his cellphone to name his daughter. When that decision was unsuccessful, he used the choose’s cellphone to dial her quantity. Virtually instantly following the calls, Stines shot Mullins, who was hiding underneath his desk.
Previous to the confrontation within the chambers, a Kentucky State Police detective mentioned the 2 had lunch along with a number of others. Through the lunch, Mullins requested Stines in the event that they wanted to satisfy privately in his chambers for an unknown purpose.
In December 2024, a lady who had sued the Letcher County Sheriff’s Division in federal courtroom got here ahead with extra data concerning Decide Mullins’ sexual misconduct. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Sabrina Adkins mentioned that she had watched a video of Mullins having intercourse with a feminine inmate in his chambers.
A co-plaintiff in that lawsuit died of a drug overdose after the go well with was filed, based on The Mountain Eagle.
The lawsuit alleged that these sexual encounters with Decide Mullins and Deputy Ben Fields, who was convicted of third-degree rape and third-degree sodomy, have been in alternate for favorable therapy whereas in jail and on dwelling incarceration. Fields was sentenced to 6 months in jail and 6 and a half years’ probation.
Now, NewsNation’s “Banfield” has performed two unique interviews with witnesses to the sex-for-favors scandal.
Tya Adams mentioned that she knew Mullins earlier than he grew to become a choose as a result of her sister labored for him when he was the Assistant Commonwealth’s Lawyer. Adams claimed her first sexual interplay with him got here when she was imagined to discover ways to take a deposition, based on her interview.
“I gave him oral with my shirt pulled down, and each time we have been achieved, he threw cash in my face and informed me to scrub myself up and jogged my memory that I knew higher than to inform my sister,” Adams informed NewsNation.
From then on, Adams claims, Mullins launched her to his buddies, different attorneys, and engaged in “intercourse events, carried out reveals, and had intercourse with them for cash.”
Adams was requested if she felt like she might say no. She rapidly responded, “No.” She continued, “They might be certain that to make you’re feeling as small and degraded and belittled as doable. To take your energy away, you already know.”
She then acknowledged that “we have been having enjoyable, too…we have been doing medicine, we [were] doing coke, plenty of cocaine, partying. It wasn’t like they have been…raping…like bodily after they hear the phrase ‘rape.’ It was consensual. It was the factor that we have been so younger, they usually used it in opposition to us to destroy our lives later…with the authorized system…CPS…systematically eradicating your entire life…piece by piece.”
Requested if she had intercourse with him after he grew to become a choose, Adams mentioned, “Yeah. I’ve had intercourse with him within the chambers…upstairs.” She then mentioned that the room within the capturing video that was revealed was not the unique chambers.
In one other interview, NewsNation spoke with Sarah Davis, a former deputy jailer. Davis mentioned had by no means really seen any of the sexual conduct, however heard “nasty and sickening” tales.
Davis mentioned she considered the jail as a “brothel.” She talked about a feminine colleague who she claimed would take male inmates right into a lockable storage room and, typically others would take their victims as much as the courthouse itself after hours.
Based on Davis, supervisors would signal out inmates and produce them dwelling to interact in sexual favors.
When requested what inmates would get in return for the sexual favors, Davis mentioned, “In the event that they’re sleeping with the guards, it’s principally for issues like cigarettes, day trip of the cell, pops, commissary, issues like that.”
Davis believed that after Sheriff Stines shot Mullins, “plenty of the corruption was going to come back out” and the Sheriff “both knew one thing or one thing was occurring that he knew about” and that “he was doing one thing to guard us.”
Mullins at one level invited Davis herself to what she believed was a intercourse celebration. Twice. She declined each occasions.
Regardless of strain from former colleagues to stay silent, Adams mentioned she is talking out for future generations.
So far as Sheriff Stines’ trial, protection attorneys have requested a $50,000 bond, claiming that he’s not a flight threat or a safety threat. Prosecutors contend that capital offenses in Kentucky aren’t eligible for bail.
Extra arguments have been ordered by Circuit Decide Christopher Cohron to be submitted by September 2nd.