MARLINTON, W.Va. — A Pocahontas County circuit judge denied a motion Friday from a former sheriff’s deputy to have his 10-20 prison sentence reduced.
Judge Jim Rowe turned down the request from Bradley Totten.
Totten, of Hillsboro, was indicted twice on a total of 66 counts claiming that from 1995 to 2010 he would arrest women and teenagers and then force them to have sex with him. There were believed to have been at least 20 victims. Totten eventually pleaded guilty to a single count of sexual abuse involving a 17-year-old girl. There were multiple assaults of the same victim.
Totten was originally sentenced last November.