Contributed by Grundy County Sheriff’s Office / James Allen Worley, 28, of Palmer, Tenn.A Palmer, Tennessee, man was sentenced Tuesday to 150 years behind bars on multiple counts of rape of a child and a count of criminal attempt to commit rape of a child.
It’s possibly the longest prison sentence handed down in Grundy County’s history, according to officials.
James Allen Worley, 28, was convicted of the charges in an August jury trial before 12th Judicial District Criminal Court Judge Justin Angel, who handed down the sentence this week. Jurors found Worley guilty of four counts of rape of a child and one count reduced in the conviction to the lesser-included offense of attempted rape of a child, court records show.
Worley was sentenced to 35 years on each of the four child rape counts and 10 years on the attempted child rape count, all ordered to run consecutively, District Attorney General Mike Taylor said Tuesday in a telephone interview.
Worley was represented at trial and in Tuesday’s sentencing hearing by Public Defender Jeff Harmon’s office.