Adkins' defense on accusations that he molested a teenage boy years ago centered on whether the young man had reached the age of 16 -- the age of consent in Georgia -- and if he remembered the dates and events correctly.In her closing argument, Assistant District Attorney Katie Gropper that said
Adkins took advantage of the teenager and wanted to take him for everything he had ? sex, women and money."This kid was struggling with balancing the good with the bad. What we know is this kid didn't always have food at his house. He didn't have a father. Adkins swooped in and saved the day," Gropper said.
She said all the victim wanted out of this trial was to be able to sleep again.
"He put himself in the hot seat, where he has been drug through the mud this entire week. And you know what? He did it because he thinks it?s the right thing to do," Gropper said.
The accuser, who is now 22, told the Georgia Bureau of Investigation last summer that he hadn't yet turned 15 when Adkins, who was the pastor of his church and became a father figure to him when his grandfather died, began calling and texting him. He said the relationship turned sexual in 2010, when he participated in various acts with his girlfriend and Adkins.
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