A 74-year-old Mt. Airy man accused of committing sex crimes against a teenaged girl is out of jail on bond. On Monday, James Henry Kinney was released from the Habersham County Detention Center after spending five days behind bars.
Sheriff’s investigators arrested Kinney on November 18 and charged him with one count of child molestation and one count of sexual battery. They began investigating the case a day earlier when school officials alerted them that the student was a victim of “online crimes,” jail records show.
According to the arrest warrants, Kinney allegedly sexually abused the girl sometime between May 1 and September 11 of this year when she was fifteen years old.
Kinney was released from jail on a $44,200 bond.
