May 26, 2016
For Immediate Release
According to Glenn Hess, 14th Circuit State Attorney:
Circuit Judge Christopher Patterson sentenced a Cottondale man to 25 years in prison Thursday for molesting four little girls.
Assistant State Attorney Shalla Jefcoat was prepared to take William Jackson McCullers, 65, to trial for molesting four girls over the course of 11 years. Two of the girls were 9, one 7 and one as young as 4 when the molestation began.
On Thursday, McCullers pleaded no contest to seven counts of lewd or lascivious molestation upon a child younger than 12. Pursuant to the plea, McCullers will serve a minimum mandatory sentence of 25 years in the Department of Corrections followed by a lifetime of sexual offender probation. He was designated a sexual predator. The case was investigated by Capt. Mark Collins of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and prosecuted by the Office of Glenn Hess, State Attorney for the 14th Judicial Circuit.