Hill pleads to sexual abuse charges, halting trial

Just as his trial was about to begin on charges of sexual abuse, sexual assault and failure to update a sex offender registry earlier this month, a Morgan County man pled guilty to several of the counts.

Shannon Hill, 63, of Berkeley Springs was indicted this September on a second offense of failure to update his registry with the West Virginia State Police as a sex offender, and nine counts of first-degree sexual abuse and…