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Jimmy David Williams(Jackson County Sheriff's Office)

MOSS POINT, Miss. (WLOX) - On Thursday, officials with the Mississippi Supreme Court announced the denial of 38-year-old Jimmy David Williams’ motion for a new trial.

Williams is currently serving 30 years in prison without parole for the 2018 rape and alleged kidnapping of a 14-year-old Moss Point High School freshman. Court documents say on March 7, 2018, Williams stopped the teen on her way to the school bus stop,
pointed a gun at her, and demanded she get in the back seat of his SUV before taking her to a nearby driveway and raping her.

Afterward, Williams brought her to school, threw $6 at her as she got out of the SUV, and told her not to tell anyone.

The teen immediately told her JROTC instructor, who then contacted her mother and Moss Point Police Department. She was taken to Singing River Hospital for a sexual assault examination, and the results were consistent with the teen’s claims.

Nine months later, Williams was arrested in Atlanta, Ga.

READ: Man arrested in 2018 kidnapping, assault of teenage girl

Throughout the trial, several people gave testimony consistent with the teen’s account. Two of those people were officials at forensics labs, each stating that exam results heavily indicated Williams assaulted the teen.

However, a social worker who met with the teen two weeks after the incident was called in defense of Williams. According to the social worker, the teen told him she had been kidnapped and raped by “a group of men” before school as part of a gang
initiation. He went on to explain that he didn’t take notes during the meeting with the teen but instead wrote them after it was over. He also acknowledged it was possible that he “could have mistakenly put [the gang initiation and the kidnapping and
sexual battery] together.”

The teen denied telling anyone, including the social worker, that she had been kidnapped by a group of men and gang-raped. Instead, she admitted she had discussed the fact that she was born into a gang, her uncle was a gang leader, and how someone is
initiated into a gang. She testified that she “was not gang-raped” and reiterated Williams was the one who kidnapped and assaulted her.

READ: Moss Point man accused of teen’s assault appears in court

As a result of the trial, Williams was convicted of sexual battery and sentenced to 30 years in prison without parole. He filed a motion for a new trial and was denied. He appealed, arguing that because the teen gave a drastically different account to
the social worker which didn’t involve him, the court’s original verdict was against the overwhelming weight of the evidence.

The jury disagreed, referring back to the testimonies others gave saying it was Williams who kidnapped and assaulted the teen. They also pointed out that the teen’s conversations with other witnesses happened immediately or shortly after the incident,
not two weeks later.

As of Thursday, Williams’ conviction is affirmed and he will continue to serve his sentence for sexual battery.

The jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision on the kidnapping charge, leading to a mistrial.

https://www.wlox.com/2024/08/01/moss-point-man-serving-30-years-sexually-assaulting-9th-grader-denied-new-trial/

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