Motions Hearing Set for August in Jeremy Green Child Molestation Case

The attorney for Jeremy Green will be back in Hart County Superior Court next month to submit motions before his case goes to trial.

Green was indicted in August 2021 on six counts of child molestation and rape while employed at the Bell Family YMCA in Hartwell.

The indictment alleges Green molested and raped “a teenage girl under the age of 16 from July 2015 to November 2015.”

That girl was later identified as Jennifer Cobb who committed suicide in June 2021 shortly after Green was released on bond.

Green has pled not guilty and was released on a $250,000 bond. However, he has been under house arrest since then.

According to the Rule Nisi Order, Superior Court Judge Chris Phelps will hear additional motions from the defense on Aug. 29 at 1:30 p.m., before the criminal trial.

Green’s attorney, Nancy Tomlinson, had filed several motions last year which were heard by Judge Phelps in November, ‘23 but no ruling was made on those motions.

Tomlinson has motioned for a change of venue and also asked that statements Jennifer made in her diary about the alleged molestation be limited in court.

Tomlinson has also motioned to have the Forensic Interview and the Testimony of the Forensic Interviewer excluded from trial and to have all opinions made by Jennifer’s mother Susan Cobb excluded.

Tomlinson is also requesting that she be allowed to privately question potential jurors individually about their biases and preconceptions regarding the case before the general group jury selection process. So far no trial date has been announced.

Since her death, Jennifer’s parents have worked to make grooming minors for sexual purposes a felony in Georgia.

This past legislative session, HB993, authored by State Representative Alan Powell passed in both houses and was signed into law by Governor Brian Kemp in April.

As of July 1, any person who commits such a crime will be subject to felony imprisonment of one to five years.

The law only applies to a person over the age of 18 and who is not within four years of age of the alleged victim.