SATURDAY April 28, 2018 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER 75 CENTS Cartersville man found guilty of molesting daughter BY JAMES SWIFT investigation, to be conducted by ment, Gregory committed “an im- pulling my underwear down.” rants for Gregory’s arrest by
[email protected] the Georgia Department of Com- moral and indecent act” to his 10- She described her father per- month’s end. munity Supervision, before her year-old daughter. The incident forming an oral sex act on her. Af- During an interview with CPD After roughly 10 hours of delib- client is formally sentenced. occurred sometime between Aug. terwards, she said he began investigator Dustin Cole, Gregory eration, jurors found Lance Odell Cherokee Judicial Circuit Judge 19-21, 2016, at the home of Gre- playing with his phone, cooked denied the allegations, stating he Gregory, 38, guilty of one count of D. Scott Smith set June 5 as the gory’s mother in Cartersville. some popcorn and resumed watch- was “shocked” and “over- aggravated child molestation and tentative date for sentencing. The victim, now 12, took the ing television. whelmed” by the accusations. He three counts of child molestation Opening statements were made witness stand during the trial. The victim remained silent on also suggested his daughter was in Bartow Superior Court Friday Tuesday morning and jurors began “I went to bed and I woke up in what happened for several months. “coached” by her mother as part of afternoon. deliberating late Wednesday the middle of the night because She disclosed the incident to her a plan to “get back” at him.