Henry McMaster has suspended a South Carolina county councilmember who's accused of sex crimes involving underage victims. McMaster issued an order suspending 49-year-old Kerry Trent Kinard.

He also used to be an S.C. Highway Patrol trooper, a Jasper County magistrate and a sports information director at the University of South Carolina’s Salkehatchie campus. Kinard also faces three ...

Bamberg County Council member Kerry Trent Kinard has been charged with molesting a child and other sex crimes with a minor, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. SLED arrested ...

Kerry Trent Kinard's sentence followed a heated bond hearing in which a federal prosecutor and Kinard's wife alleged he had terrorized his family, disregarded previous court orders and behaved as ...