By NEAL WAGNER / Managing Editor

ALABASTER – Charges against a 51-year-old Alabaster man who has been charged with allegedly sexually abusing an underage victim are headed to trial in Shelby County Circuit Court, according to documents filed on Nov. 9.

James Harrison Moore, who lists an address on Wilderness Lane in Alabaster, appeared in court on Nov. 9 for a status hearing. During the hearing, Circuit Court Judge Dan Reeves ordered the case to be “continued generally to await placement on the court’s next available pretrial docket,” and said the court will later schedule pretrial docket, plea docket and trial dates.

Moore has been indicted by a Shelby County grand jury on three felony counts of first-degree sexual abuse and two felony counts of first-degree sodomy.

The Alabaster Police Department arrested Moore on June 24, 2014, and charged him with two first-degree sodomy charges and one first-degree sexual abuse charge after a member of the victim’s family told police Moore allegedly sexually abused the teenage victim over the “last couple of years,” Alabaster Police Chief Curtis Rigney said previously.

Moore was released from jail on his original three charges after posting bonds on June 27, 2014, which was four days after he was arrested by the Alabaster Police Department and charged with the three felony counts.

He was re-arrested by Alabaster police on April 6 of this year after a grand jury indicted him on the two additional first-degree sexual abuse charges. According to the most recent indictments, Moore allegedly subjected a victim “to sexual contact by forcible compulsion” between January 1982 and January 1985. The two new charges came as the result of police investigation, the results of which were turned over to the grand jury for review.

First-degree sodomy is a Class A felony, and first-degree sexual abuse is a Class C felony. Class A felonies carry prison sentences of up to 99 years, and Class C felonies carry sentences of up to 10 years.