WEST VIRGINIA
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph
PRINCETON — Sexual abuse and sexual assault, robbery, escape and assault on a police officer were among the indictments handed down by the February 2016 term of the Mercer County Grand Jury.
James Lilly, 24, of Bluefield was indicted on 22 charges including sexual abuse first degree, sexual assault third degree and incest. Lilly allegedly started abusing a female juvenile when she was 9 to 10 years old and continued abusing her until she was 16.
Lilly, by his own admission, is transgender and in the process of becoming a woman, Detective K.L. Adams of the Bluefield Police Department said at the time of the arrest.
Lilly once served with youth ministry at the Christ Episcopal Church in Bluefield. Rector Chad Slater told the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that Lilly had been hired with a grant from the Diocese of West Virginia, and came highly recommended. His position at the church ended Sept. 15, 2015 because the grant funding had ended and because “he really wasn’t doing a whole lot.”
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