Former Gilmer Pastor Found Guilty of Multiple Child Sex Charges

GILMER — A former Gilmer pastor found guilty of multiple child sex charges involving his own daughter will be spending a long time in prison. Hugo Fluellen, 54, was sentenced yesterday to six consecutive life sentences. He will not be eligible for parole for 180 years.

According to a news release from Upshur County District Attorney Billy Byrd, �Witness testimony indicated that Fluellen would often molest his victim on the way home from church after she had attended church and sang in the choir. Hugo molested his victim up until late 2012, when he was arrested on several counts of indecency with a child, aggravated sexual assault of a child and sexual assault of a child.� DNA evidence also showed Fluellen fathered a child with the victim.

Fluellen�s wife Rosie Evans Fluellen, 44, is in the Upshur County Jail under a $150,000 bond. She is charged with sexual assault of a child. According to Byrd, �She knew about it and was a party to the crime.�