Jury trials set for accused sex offenders
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Recommend ThisBy Preston Knight -- pknight@nvdaily.com
WOODSTOCK -- Jury trials are scheduled in September in Shenandoah County Circuit Court for a pair of local men who have denied their involvement in sex crimes against children.
On Wednesday, James Clifford Hawkins, 22, of 3256 Senedo Road, Quicksburg, pleaded not guilty to taking indecent liberties with a child and proposing a sex act by computer. The victim is under 15 and the charges stem from an incident Oct. 26, records state.
No details of the accusations against Hawkins were available, however. He remains free on bond and is scheduled for a jury trial at 9 a.m. on Sept. 16.
A day before that, David Keith Mitchell, 31, of 398 Mockingbird Lane, Mt. Jackson, is also scheduled to face a jury. He pleaded not guilty last week to having sex with an underage girl and the aggravated sexual battery of a 14-year-old girl, according to records.
According to a criminal complaint for the battery charge, Mitchell and the girl were seen at Sally's Beauty Shop in Woodstock on Dec. 1, with the man observed kissing her, grabbing her backside, putting his hand inside the back of her pants and telling her he wanted to get drunk with her that night.
When the two were out of the witness' view, "slurping" and kissing were heard, and the girl was laughing afterward, it states.
"[In] regards to touching [the girl] he saw nothing inappropriate about his behavior," the complaint states.
During Hawkins' brief proceeding in court Wednesday, Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Ken Alger told Judge Dennis L. Hupp that he expects Mitchell's trial to be "intense."
Mitchell, who has five years and six months of suspended prison time remaining from various other convictions in the last four years, is being held at the Shenandoah County Jail. New probation violations will be considered at the time of the trial.
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