Kentucky judge killed in chambers accused of trading sexual favors for influence at wild parties

Tya Adams told News Nation that she would attend sex parties for District Court Judge Kevin Mullins and his friends in the small rural town of Whitesburg in exchange for money or to get offenders out of trouble. 

She said she felt she couldn't say no because she feared the retribution from the legal system and that 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."

"That was just a given," she added. "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."

It wasn't immediately clear if Adams had a criminal history or had been known to CPS. 

"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."

She described the lockup as a "brothel" where staffers had sexual encounters with each other, as well as with inmates. 

Mullins invited Davis to a sex party once, but she said she declined. 

"I was raised better than that," she said.

Video footage of the shooting captured Stines shooting Mullins as he sat at his desk. The sheriff, the judge's longtime colleague and friend, allegedly continued to fire after Mullins fell to the floor. 

The two men had eaten lunch together hours earlier with a group, authorities said. 

At a preliminary hearing, Kentucky State Police Detective Clayton Stamper testified that Stines attempted to call his daughter on his phone, then on Mullins' phone. Stines' daughter was stored in Mullins' contacts, The Associated Press previously reported.