Hart County Man Pleads Guilty to Molesting 14-year Old

A Hart County man will spend the next 20 years in state prison after pleading guilty last week to molesting a 14-year old girl.

According to a report in the Athens-Banner Herald, 33-year old James Melvin Parsons of Hartwell was arrested in May 2014 and charged with child molestation, statutory rape, and enticing a child for indecent purposes.

Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Parks White called the plea a good result because it avoided having to put the victim on the stand if there had been a trial.