Sentencing date set for wife of former sheriff’s deputy

Published 4:46 pm Tuesday, January 19, 2016

The wife of a former Chilton County deputy who faced multiple charges for committing sex crimes involving minors is scheduled to be sentenced March 9.

Rebecca Hubbard, 36, is scheduled to be sentenced at 8:30 a.m. before Chilton County Circuit Judge Ben A. Fuller, according to an order filed Jan. 8.

Court records indicate Hubbard’s attorney filed a motion on Jan. 8 requesting the sentencing date be set for Hubbard.

“The case was continued after plea for her to offer assistance to prosecute the co-defendant, David Hubbard,” the motion states. “She cooperated fully and is now ready for sentencing.”

Hubbard entered a negotiated guilty plea on Aug. 26, 2015, to two counts of rape in the second degree, one count of enticing a child for immoral purposes, one count of a school employee having sexual contact with a student less than 19, and one count of a school employee committing a sexual act with a student less than 19.

Fuller filed an order on Aug. 31, 2015, accepting the plea agreement.

The charges came after a June 19, 2014, wreck on Alabama Highway 145 near Jefferson State Community College in Clanton, which involved three vehicles and resulted in the death of an Alabaster man and two others being hospitalized.

The wreck was the initial link to David and Rebecca Hubbard.

After an investigation into the wreck, David and Rebecca Hubbard were arrested in July 2014 and were first charged with sexual contact with a student under the age of 19 and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

As news of the initial charges were released, other minors came forward and alleged that they had also been subjected to inappropriate and illegal contact with David and Rebecca Hubbard.

The two were indicted by a special grand jury in Chilton County held in November 2014 on 77 total charges.

In December 2015, David Hubbard entered a negotiated guilty plea to rape in the second degree, four counts of a school employee engaging in a sex act with a student under the age of 19, and one count of enticing a child for immoral purposes, according to court records.

David Hubbard’s sentencing is scheduled at 8:30 a.m. on Feb. 10 at the Chilton County Courthouse.