Former Kentucky Judge will likely spend the rest of his life in jail
after the conclusion of his child sex trafficking case.
71-year-old
Timothy Nolan — a former Campbell County District Judge who was a volunteer on Trump
campaign in Kentucky according to court documents —
entered guilty pleas on all 21 counts against him in court on Friday. A press
release issued by the office of Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear listed a
multitude of charges, including human trafficking of adults, human trafficking
of minors, and unlawful transaction with minors.
Nolan
could serve 20 years in jail and pay restitution of
$110,000, with a bulk of the fine going toward the Human Trafficking Victims
Fund, which the Kentucky General Assembly established in 2013. Nolan will be eligible for parole in 2022, according to the
Cincinnati Enquirer. If he had not entered guilty pleas, Nolan would have faced
up to 100 years in prison.
The
New York Daily News reported that Nolan had a total of 19 victims dating back to 2004.
While the victims’ information has not been publicly released, some of them
included children below the age of 18. Judge Kathleen Lape said Nolan threatened arrest and eviction to force
women and girls to have sex with him. Nolan also apparently paid the women and
juveniles with heroin and painkillers, and gave alcohol to a minor on more than
one occasion.
Some
of Nolan’s pleas were Alford
v. North Carolina pleas, meaning that the plea was given
to avoid trial due to overwhelming evidence, but that Nolan still maintains his
innocence. Excerpt from Gritpost
