# JUSTICE DENIED: THE DOCUMENTED WRONGFUL CONVICTION OF KENNETH ANTHONY ADKINS
## New Evidence — Including a Sworn Affidavit from the Alleged Female Victim Herself — Raises Serious Questions About One of Brunswick Georgia's Most Controversial Prosecutions
**By the Kenneth Adkins Freedom Project**
**May 16, 2026**
Ten years ago Kenneth Anthony Adkins — a respected pastor, Bishop, and public relations executive known throughout Jacksonville, Florida and Brunswick, Georgia — was convicted of child molestation and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
The trial was high profile. The coverage was devastating. And the community that had trusted his voice for years watched in silence as one of its most recognizable figures was led away in handcuffs.
But a growing body of documented evidence — including the State's own investigative records, a sworn notarized affidavit from the alleged female victim herself, testimony from the State's own trial witness, and forensic authentication that has never been heard by any court — tells a fundamentally different story than the one the jury received.
Kenneth Anthony Adkins maintains with absolute certainty that the alleged incidents never happened. Not before May 2010. Not after May 2010. Not ever. Not at any age. Not at any time.
And the documented evidence supports him.
## WHO KENNETH ADKINS IS
Before his arrest Kenneth Adkins was one of the most recognizable and respected voices in Jacksonville and coastal Georgia's faith and civic community. He owned and operated a public relations firm that served churches, community organizations, and advocacy groups across Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. He was a pastor, a Bishop, and by most accounts the most quoted faith leader in the region — regularly sought by media outlets and community leaders for perspective on the issues that mattered most.
He was the man the cameras sought out.
Today he sits in Augusta State Medical Prison in Georgia — 66 years old — serving a sentence that his wife Charlotte Adkins and a growing network of national advocates say should never have been imposed.
## THE CASE — AND THE TIMELINE THAT CANNOT SUPPORT A CRIME
Adkins was convicted in Glynn County Superior Court in Brunswick, Georgia on multiple counts of child molestation, aggravated child molestation, and enticing a child for indecent purposes involving two complainants — identified in court records as A.J. and T.V.
The allegations were not made until **2016** — six years after the alleged incidents were said to have occurred.
Under Georgia law the age of consent is 16. The State's entire case rested on one absolute legal requirement — proving the alleged acts occurred before both accusers turned 16. Without that timeline no crime exists under Georgia law.
The documented evidence now shows that requirement was never met — and that the State knew it.
T.V. was born **March 12, 1994** and turned 16 on **March 12, 2010.**
A.J. turned 16 on **December 15, 2010.**
A **forensically verified resignation letter** — authenticated by St. Johns Data Consulting and dated **May 22, 2010** — proves Adkins did not leave his first church, First Jordan Grove Baptist, until **May 23, 2010.** He did not establish Greater Dimensions Christian Fellowship — the location where the alleged acts were said to have occurred — until after that date.
T.V. had already turned 16 more than two months before Adkins left First Jordan Grove. A.J. did not turn 16 until December 2010 — nearly seven months after Adkins established Greater Dimensions.
That resignation letter was in the **State's possession before and during trial.**
The jury never saw it.
## THE ALLEGED FEMALE VICTIM'S SWORN AFFIDAVIT — NEVER PRESENTED TO ANY COURT
In what advocates describe as one of the most significant developments in the case since Adkins' conviction a **sworn notarized affidavit executed under penalty of perjury** by T.V. — the alleged female victim in five of Adkins' eight counts of conviction — has surfaced and has never been presented to any court.
The affidavit — executed on **November 7, 2018** before Notary Public Uvery Morrell in Glynn County, Georgia — states in T.V.'s own words:
*"I testified during the trial of Kenneth Adkins and misspoke during my testimony. I stated at trial that I had met the defendant when I was 15. However the truth of the matter is that I met the defendant at 16 on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010 when I attended the baptism of Anntwan Jones."*
*"The Baptism was held at First Jordan Grove Baptist Church where Kenneth Adkins was the Pastor."*
*"Several weeks later I joined the Church along with several other members to help start The Greater Dimensions Christian Fellowship. We left near the end of May, 2010."*
*"I also testified that I engaged in sex for the first time with Anntwan Jones in October 2010."*
*"We also had a counseling session with Kenneth Adkins about birth control. That conversation took place during our School break for Christmas holidays in December 2010."*
The legal significance of this affidavit is profound.
T.V. turned 16 on March 12, 2010 — **23 days before** Easter Sunday April 4, 2010 when she states she first met Adkins. She was already past Georgia's age of consent when she first encountered the defendant. Her affidavit places every described act — first meeting, first sexual activity in October 2010, birth control counseling in December 2010 — after she was already 16 years old.
There is not a single act described in T.V.'s sworn affidavit that occurred while she was under 16.
T.V. was **physically present** at the Motion for New Trial hearing with this sworn affidavit — ready and available to testify. Adkins' appellate attorney never called her to the stand.
Her corrected sworn testimony has never been presented to any court.
## THE STATE'S OWN RECORDS PROVE THE EVIDENCE WAS SUPPRESSED
Advocates for Adkins obtained Brunswick Police Department Incident Report **BP11-4423** through an open records request — a document processed and released by Sgt. Roy Blackstock himself in March 2021.
That document — the State's own investigative records — contains Detective Len Schmauch's supplemental reports documenting two critical facts:
On **May 25, 2011** Detective Schmauch met personally with **District Attorney Jackie Johnson** who expressed interest and support in the investigation and directed him to obtain Adkins' employment records from First Jordan Grove Baptist Church.
On **November 15, 2011** — five years before Adkins was charged with sexual abuse — Deacon Rayfield Barneman delivered to Detective Schmauch at Brunswick Police Department a package of documents that included in the detective's own words — **"Kenneth Adkins resignation letter."**
The resignation letter proving the prosecution's timeline was false was in the State's possession from November 2011. It was never disclosed to the defense.
Sgt. Blackstock later confirmed this through sworn testimony at the Motion for New Trial hearing on April 12, 2022 — testifying that the resignation letter was in the State's possession before trial and was never disclosed. When he attempted to retrieve the full investigative file through an open records request he was told the **entire file had gone missing** — reportedly taken to a GBI office in Kingsland before trial.
## THE STATE'S OWN WITNESS DESTROYED THE INDICTMENT'S LOCATION ALLEGATION
Every count of Adkins' indictment alleged the offenses occurred at **"an office building on G Street, Brunswick, Georgia"** — the location of Greater Dimensions Christian Fellowship.
The State called **Brady Turner** — the owner of the G Street building — as their final witness at trial. Turner testified under oath that he did **not** lease Adkins an office on G Street. He only leased Adkins the **church** — located a few doors down from the alleged crime location.
The State's own final witness testified that the crime location specifically named in every count of the indictment never existed as described.
Trial counsel never moved for a directed verdict. No court has ever addressed this testimony in the context of a fatal variance between the indictment and the proof.
## FOUR PROVABLY FALSE STATEMENTS — ON THE RECORD
While the resignation letter sat hidden in the State's possession the prosecutor made four specific provably false statements to the Glynn County jury during closing argument — all documented in Trial Transcript Volume 5:
*"There was no evidence of that."* — T5, 949:14–17
*"Nothing from this case puts Greater Dimensions opening in May of 2010."* — T5, 949:22–25
*"Every witness has said he left First Jordan Grove in 2009."* — T5, 950:19–20
*"We know he left First Jordan Grove in 2009."* — T5, 959:15–19
Every statement was false. The resignation letter contradicting each of these statements was in the State's possession when those words were spoken to the jury.
## THE ATTORNEY WHO ADMITTED HE FAILED — AND THE ONE WHO STAYED SILENT
Trial attorney Kevin Gough admitted under oath at the Motion for New Trial hearing that Adkins asked him to obtain the resignation letter **eight months before trial** — and that he never subpoenaed it. He admitted the failure was **not a tactical decision.**
Gough also failed to recognize that T.V.'s own trial testimony — placing her first meeting with Adkins on Easter Sunday April 4, 2010 — combined with her date of birth of March 12, 1994 — established she was already 16 years old when she first met Adkins. Simple arithmetic reveals this fact immediately. A competent defense attorney in a child molestation case is required to know the alleged victim's exact age. Gough never caught it. He never moved for a directed verdict on any count involving T.V.
Appellate counsel compounded these failures by:
- Never calling T.V. to the stand at the Motion for New Trial hearing despite her physical presence with a sworn affidavit
- Never calling the St. Johns Data Consulting forensic expert — available and ready to testify — whose authentication has never been heard by any court
- Never presenting the BP11-4423 documents establishing the State's possession of the resignation letter from 2011
- Failing to properly establish the Brady diligence foundation — causing the Court of Appeals to dismiss the Brady claim on procedural rather than merits grounds
## THE OFFICE THAT PROSECUTED ADKINS — A PATTERN GEORGIA KNOWS
Adkins was prosecuted by the **Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's office** under **District Attorney Jackie Johnson** — whose record of institutional misconduct extends across multiple high-profile cases.
**Dennis Perry** spent nearly twenty years wrongfully imprisoned for a double murder he did not commit — prosecuted by that same office. When the Georgia Innocence Project presented new DNA evidence and proof of misconduct to Jackie Johnson in 2020 she fought to keep Perry in prison. It took a new District Attorney to finally free him in July 2021.
**Ahmaud Arbery** was murdered while jogging in Brunswick in February 2020. Jackie Johnson's office attempted to shield his killers from prosecution. She was subsequently indicted on charges of violating her oath of office and hindering a law enforcement officer.
Three cases. One office. One District Attorney. One documented pattern of suppression and misconduct.
Dennis Perry has been freed. Ahmaud Arbery's killers have been convicted. **Kenneth Adkins remains in prison.**
## A MAJOR RECENT DEVELOPMENT — THE GBI REVERSES COURSE
In a development that advocates say signals growing pressure on Georgia state agencies the **Georgia Bureau of Investigation** — which months ago told Adkins' supporters they had no record of the missing resignation letter — **called Charlotte Adkins seeking clarification** about an open records request following a coordinated media and advocacy outreach campaign.
*"Two months ago they said they had nothing,"* Charlotte Adkins said. *"Now they are calling. The pressure is working."*
## THE NATIONAL ADVOCACY RESPONSE
Adkins' case has been submitted to the **Equal Justice Initiative** — Bryan Stevenson's organization — and to the **Southern Center for Human Rights** in Atlanta. Both submissions were personally referred by **Anthony Graves** — the Texas man who spent twelve years wrongfully imprisoned on death row before being fully exonerated — who reviewed Adkins' case and began making calls on his behalf.
The **Wrongful Conviction Podcast**, **The Marshall Project**, the **Atlanta Journal-Constitution** investigative team, **ProPublica South**, and television stations across Georgia and Florida have all been contacted. The **Local Low Down Podcast** — a Brunswick based outlet targeting police and judicial misconduct in Glynn County — has confirmed it has been making phone calls about the case.
The **Jacksonville Free Press** — Northeast Florida's premier African American weekly newspaper — has published a feature article about Adkins' wrongful conviction.
## WHERE THINGS STAND
Adkins is currently preparing to file a **State Habeas Corpus petition** in Richmond County Superior Court — his last available legal remedy — built on eight documented constitutional grounds including suppressed evidence, prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of counsel at both trial and appellate levels, newly discovered evidence in T.V.'s sworn affidavit, and a fatal variance between the indictment and the proof established by the State's own witness.
He is preparing this petition without an attorney — pro se — from inside Augusta State Medical Prison. Advocates are actively seeking pro bono legal representation.
His wife Charlotte Adkins has been fighting for his freedom since his conviction.
*"The jury never saw the truth,"* she said. *"A forensically verified document proved the State's timeline was false. The alleged female victim swore under penalty of perjury that she was already 16 when she first met Kenneth. The State's own final witness testified the crime location never existed as described. A police officer testified under oath that the evidence was suppressed. The prosecutor made four statements to the jury that the court record proves were false. And Kenneth has maintained his innocence every single day for ten years."*
*"We are not going away."*
## HOW TO HELP
- **Follow and share:** Kenneth Adkins Freedom Project on Facebook and TikTok
- **Contact:** Charlotte Adkins — stormy.adkins@gmail.com | 912-571-4579
- **Visit:** www.kennethadkins.org | www.thekennethadkinsfreedomproject.com
- **Attorneys and advocates:** Contact us immediately if you can assist with pro bono habeas representation
*Supporting documentation including Trinity Vann's sworn notarized affidavit, the Brunswick Police Department BP11-4423 investigative records, the forensic authentication report, sworn testimony transcripts, trial records, and the full habeas corpus petition are available upon request.*
**Kenneth Adkins Freedom Project**
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