(NewsNation) — An accuser of a Kentucky judge who was killed last year in his chambers claims the judge would demand sex to get offenders out of trouble.
Judge Kevin Mullins was shot at a courthouse, allegedly by Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. “Mickey” Stines. Audio recordings were later found that could indicate a possible sex-for-favors scheme, not just in the courthouse but also in the small town of Whitesburg.
Tya Adams told “Banfield” in an exclusive interview Monday that she knew of Mullins through his past work as an assistant commonwealth attorney.
“That’s when he started introducing me to his friends,” Adams said. “And we would do sex parties and perform shows and have sex with them for money, things like that.”
Accuser felt she couldn’t refuse judge
Asked why she felt she couldn’t say no to Mullins, Adams said she feared the legal system and Child Protective Services would upend her life.
“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 said Mullins and others said she should keep quiet about what was allegedly taking place in the town’s judicial system.
“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.”
Former jailer thought town was a brothel
Sarah Davis, a former deputy jailer at Letcher County, Kentucky Jail, said she had never seen anyone initiating sex, but that the stories she heard were “nasty and sickening.”
“Pretty much everybody in the county knows,” she said. “But it was confirmed to me after working in the county jail, especially after being invited to a party myself.”
Davis added that Mullins asked her to a sex party himself, which she declined.
“I was raised better than that,” she said.