UPDATE @ 4:32 p.m. (Oct. 15): Trial is scheduled for February for Joseph Pilkington, whose wife is accused of murder in the slaying of their three sons.
Pilkington is charged with sexual battery. He is accused of having a sexual relationship with his now wife, Brittany Pilkington, when she was a minor and he had lived in her home as a stepfather figure for years.
He was released from the Logan County Jail on bond earlier this month and a judge set several future court dates at a hearing Thursday.
A jury trial has been scheduled for Feb. 25, 2016.
The next status conference will be Jan. 21, 2016, with a final pre-trial date set for Feb. 8, 2016.
Brittany Pilkington is charged with three counts of aggravated murder, accused of smothering her sons to death one at a time from July 2014 to August 2015. She could be sentenced to death if convicted.
Her next court date is Oct. 21 and her trial has been scheduled to start March 7, 2016.
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Joseph Pilkington, the Bellefontaine father of three young boys allegedly killed by their mother Brittany Pilkington, is out of jail on bond. His next court hearing on a sexual battery charge is scheduled for this week.
According to court records, Pilkington was released from jail on Oct. 2. A judge had reduced his bond earlier that week from $100,000 to $10,000.
A scheduling conference for his case will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday.
His wife’s next court date is Oct. 21 for a status conference.
Brittany Cummins Pilkington is charged with three counts of aggravated murder, accused of smothering her sons to death one at a time from July 2014 to August 2015. She could be sentenced to death if convicted.
Joseph Pilkington was charged with sexual battery and arrested in September for allegedly starting a sexual relationship with her while she was a minor and he was a step-father figure living in her home.
He was involved in a relationship with her mother from the time she was a child and purported himself to be her parent at school and at doctors’ appointments, prosecutors have said.
He pleaded not guilty to the single felony count last month.