A massage therapist arrested for sexual abuse in 2015 amid accusations that he groped a client has been acquitted.
A Jefferson County jury this week found James Spencer Whitehead Jr., who is 39 and blind, not guilty, according to court records made public Friday. Hoover police arrested Whitehead in September 2014.
The previously-alleged incident happened Sept. 11 at Whitehead's business, Awesome Touch Massage Therapy on Southland Drive in Hoover. The client, now 61, told police she was receiving a massage when she was subjected to sexual contact by Whitehead.
"She was getting what she thought was a legitimate massage,'' Hoover police Capt. Gregg Rector said at the time of Whitehead's arrest. "He touched her in a way that was unwanted, unprofessional and criminal in nature."
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