Brownsville Couple Indicted On Child Sex Abuse, Other Charges

Jorday Gray (31), Brownsville, Brianna Cowles (25), Brownsville.

Darren Doyle, story:
A Brownsville couple is accused of sexually abusing a child and using a cell phone to record some of the abuse. The couple was recently indicted in Edmonson Circuit Court.

Acting on a tip from a family member, the Kentucky State Police opened an investigation into the couple that resulted in the arrests of Jorday K. Gray, 31, and Brianna Cowles, 25, Sept. 19, according to their arrest citations.

Both Cowles and Gray admitted to police to forcing sexual acts on a minor child as well as recording some of the incidents on a cell phone and through video chats, according to their citations. The videos were shared between the two.

Gray is charged with:
• First-degree wanton endangerment
• First-degree criminal abuse - child under age of 12
• First-degree rape incapable of consent/physically helpless
• Incest, victim under age of 12 or serious physical injury
• First-degree sodomy, victim under age of 12 
• First-degree rape, victim under age of 12
• Distribution of matter portraying sexual performance by a minor, first offense
• Distribution of obscene matter to minors, first offense
• Possession of matter portraying sexual performance by minor under age 12 

Gray faces a total of 142 counts related to the above charges.

Cowles is charged with:
• First-degree sodomy, incapable of consent/physically helpless
• Incest-victim under age of 12 or serious physical injury
• First-degree sodomy, victim under age of 12
• Distribution of matter portraying sexual performance by a minor, first offense
• Distribution of obscene matter to minors, first offense
• Possession of matter portraying sexual performance by minor under age 12

Cowles faces a total of 143 counts related to the above charges.

Both were already in jail on indictments of First-degree rape (incapable of consent/physically helpless) related to a different victim, according to court documents. They are both being held on a $100,000 cash bond. 

If convicted, both Gray and Cowles could face as much as 100 years in prison, each.