'THEY'RE ALL SWINGERS': Kentucky judge shot dead accused of running court brothel
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A Kentucky judge shot and killed in his chambers last year is accused of running a courthouse brothel where women were asked to perform sexual favours to wipe away their legal problems.
Authorities said District Court Judge Kevin Mullins was gunned down Sept. 19, 2024, by Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines. Stines has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
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However, the explosive sex allegations have come to light 11 months after his death.
Tya Adams said she knew the judge back when he was an assistant state attorney and claimed she attended the alleged debauchery.
“That’s when he started introducing me to his friends,” Adams told NewsNation host Ashleigh Banfield. “And we would do sex parties and perform shows and have sex with them for money, things like that.”
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Adams alleged Mullins would hold sex parties with his friends not only at the Whitesburg courthouse but also around the rural town.
According to Adams, women were paid for the intimate encounters and to escape legal limbo.
“They would make sure to make you feel as small and degraded and belittled as possible to take your power away,” Adams said. “It was consensual. But it was the thing that we were so young, and then they used it against us and to destroy our lives later.”
Adams also worried about legal repercussions if she said no to Mullins, and was allegedly warned not to spread word of what was actually going on.
“That was just a given,” she said. “And, who would believe it anyway? Because the whole town was doing it. Nobody cares. They’re all swingers. It’s all a big party to them. It was just so normal.”
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A former Letcher County deputy jailer said she heard “nasty and sickening” stories about the sex parties but never witnessed them in person.
“Pretty much everybody in the county knows,” Sarah Davis said. “But it was confirmed to me after working in the county jail, especially after being invited to a party myself.”
Davis claimed she declined an invite by the judge to one of his sex sessions.
“I was raised better than that,” she said.
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