The rural Kentucky judge who was gunned down in his chambers last year by a local sheriff possibly ran a scheme where he demanded sexual favors from women to get them out of trouble, an accuser claims. 

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. 

Adams told NewsNation’s “Banfield” that Mullins had warned her to keep quiet about what was taking place. 

Judge Kevin Mullins, sitting at his desk dressed in a suit, hands his phone over to Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines shortly before being shot dead in his own chambers. An accuser said the judge demanded sexual favors from women.  (Kentucky State Police)

“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.

Mullins, 54, was shot and killed in a Sept. 19, 2024 attack inside his chambers by Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines. Stines, who is no longer a sheriff, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. 

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. 

Kentucky State Police Trooper and former Letcher County Sheriff’s deputy, a friend of Mickey Stines, tries to calm Stines down during questioning.  (Kentucky State Police)

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.