Lucy sentenced to 10 years for sexual abuse

Circuit Judge Eddie Hardaway Jr. today sentenced Bishop Gregory Lemar Lucy to the maximum 10 years with no probation on a single count of first degree sexual abuse.

Lucy was indicted by the Marengo County Grand Jury in 2016 on five counts of first degree sexual abuse and one count of attempted rape. He pled guilty Oct. 8 to a single sexual abuse charge, and the others were dismissed.

The victim, a 14-year-old female at the time of the incident, was a member of Lucy’s church, El-Shaddai, in Dixons Mills, where he has been a pastor for 30 years.