Wynnona Judd files for divorce after husband's arrest on sex charges
March 27, 2007
Adapted from CNN.com
Country music star Wynonna Judd said she filed for divorce from her estranged husband after his arrest last week in Texas on sex charges involving a minor.
The 49-year-old man was arrested in Texas and charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery against a child younger than 13 in Nashville, police said.
He was expected to be extradited to Nashville, said a police spokesman.
"I am obviously devastated," the 42-year-old country singer said in a statement on her Web site.
"Our family will pull together, begin the healing process and hopefully -- by the Grace of God -- become stronger. We will move forward with our faith, family and our friends to find resolution to this difficult situation."
The police spokesman said an investigation by the department's sex crimes unit started in February.
Judd cited irreconcilable differences as a reason for divorce in the complaint filed in a Nashville suburb.
The couple, who were married in November 2003, has been separated since February 18, according to the complaint.
Her husband had been receiving treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at a rehabilitation clinic in Texas, Judd said.
The couple has no children. Judd has children from a previous marriage.
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