Hopkins County Magistrate's Case Goes to Grand Jury

By Carrie Pond

Murray, KY – A District Judge has sent sex abuse charges against a Hopkins County magistrate to a county grand jury. Judge Robert Soder found probable cause in the case against Wesley Lynn, who represents the Fiscal Court's 7th district. The Madisonville Messenger reports Lynn, who worked as an emergency room paramedic until his July resignation, is charged with sexually abusing three women while they were under his care at Madisonville's Regional Medical Center. He has pled not guilty to two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and one count of third-degree sexual abuse. The grand jury meets October 21.