Man Pleads Guilty to Abusing Young Girl

Feb. 23, 2022 – A South Memphis man pled guilty Tuesday to sexually abusing the 9-year-old daughter of his former girlfriend while babysitting the child in 2018, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Defendant James T. Williams Jr., 33, pled guilty in Criminal Court to two counts of aggravated sexual battery and was sentenced to 15 years in prison without the possibility for parole.

Williams also will be on the Violent Sex Offender Registry and will be on Community Supervision for life.

The incident occurred in April of 2018 at Williams’ residence in the 1000 block of College St. where the child’s mother dropped her off on the way to work. Medical tests, including DNA, confirmed the young girl was sexually molested and that Williams was the offender.

The case was handled by Asst. Dist. Attys. Devon Dennis and Alyssa Hennig of the District Attorney’s Special Victims Unit (SVU) which prosecutes cases involving child rape and sexual abuse, severe physical abuse of children, elder abuse, and vulnerable adult abuse.

The SVU is an expansion of the multi-agency Child Protection Investigative Team known as CPIT.