JoCo Judge Kevin Moriarty’s letter explains how Kimberly Ireland got it all wrong

This week’s Pitch feature story details how a simple divorce case muddied the reputation of Johnson County District Court Judge Kevin P. Moriarty.

Moriarty had been assigned as a mediator in the divorce of Kevin and Kimberly Ireland, filed in 2007. After the mediation, Kimberly (who was an attorney at the time) accused the judge of masturbating behind the bench, discussing her sex life and her panties. She has since retracted her accusations and issued an apology, blaming her actions on stress caused by her divorce. Because come on, who hasn’t been so stressed out that they had hallucinations of masturbating judges?