Convicted murderer gets up to 140 years for incest, abuse

Published 9:12 am Wednesday, December 26, 2018

HUNTINGTON (AP) — A convicted murderer has been sentenced to up to 140 years in prison for incest and the repeated sexual abuse of a teenage girl.

A local media outlet reported Sunday that 37-year-old Granville Ray McCloud was sentenced last week following his November conviction of 21 counts of sexual abuse, sexual assault and incest. Prosecutors say McCloud was on parole for a 1998 murder when he attacked the girl between 2014 and 2015.

McCloud served 15 years for the slaying of 80-year-old Juanita Tia Loretta Hughes, who was found bound, gagged and dead in her Huntington home in 1998. He was released from prison in 2014.

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McCloud says the girl made up the allegations and that the lead investigator on the case did not seek the truth.