FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (Court TV/Scripps News Lexington) — A Kentucky woman has been released from custody after a grand jury declined to return an indictment against her for the death of her father.

Summer Adkins, 22, was arrested in June after allegedly calling 911 and telling a dispatcher she had shot her father, reported Scripps News Lexington . Upon arrival, police found 62-year-old Jimmy Harvey dead in a chair from multiple gunshot wounds.

Adkins was arrested and charged with one count of murder. One week later, her defense claimed in court that Adkins shot her father because she was allegedly sexually abused by him as a child and believed he was sexually abusing a family member, reported WYMT .

“While the Grand Jury is sympathetic to the family of Mr. Harvey and does not condone p

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