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Jury acquits Oakwood man of molestation charges
Joshua Ray McDougald
Joshua Ray McDougald
A 30-year-old Oakwood man was found not guilty Friday by a Hall County jury of all charges related to a child molestation case. After about five hours of deliberation, Joshua Ray McDougald was acquitted on two counts of aggravated sexual battery, statutory rape, two counts of aggravated child molestation and three counts of child molestation. McDougald’s attorney, Senior Public Defender Brett Willis, said the jurors appropriately found reasonable doubt in the state’s lack of evidence.