Kimberly Cunningham had known Coy Hundley for 18 years, and she trusted him. As her sister’s longtime boyfriend, Coy was practically an uncle to Kimberly’s three children, and he often had them over to his home.

He was the farthest thing from Kimberly’s mind when she tried to discover why her 16-year-old daughter was depressed. The teenager told her mother that she had a terrible secret that she had been keeping from her for seven years: Coy Hundley and his son – her cousin - had been sexually molesting her since she was nine-years-old.

Furious, Kimberly drove to Hundley’s workplace the next morning to confront him. When Hundley laughed and asked her what she was going to do about it, Kimberly pulled out a gun and shot him eight times. She then drove herself to the sheriff’s office and turned herself in.

When she went to trial, the jury deadlocked. At a second trial, the jury found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter, killing in the heat of passion. The judge sentenced Kimberly to four years in prison. She’s still out on bond, pending the outcome of an appeal.