Jodie Brooke King, a former Decatur probation officer and foster mom, faces new charges in Lawrence County for allegedly forcing a girl to sleep naked in a kennel with dogs. King is also facing charges in Morgan County for child abuse.
A former Decatur probation officer and foster mom, Jodie Brooke King, faces new charges in Lawrence County for allegedly forcing a girl to sleep naked in a kennel with dogs. King, 48, was charged in December by a Lawrence County grand jury with aggravated child abuse, a Class B felony.
According to the Lawrence County indictment, King abused a child by slapping her, pulling her hair, hitting her with the metal part of a belt in the eye, putting her in a dog kennel to sleep with the dogs while she was naked, chaining her to a fence with a dog leash, and shooting a gun beside her head. King was indicted by a Morgan County grand jury last year on eight counts of child abuse and arrested on May 6. She was released from the Morgan County Jail less than two hours after her booking on a $30,000 bond. King, a 22-year law enforcement veteran, was terminated from her position with the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles on May 6. The alleged abuse came to light when the victim's biological mother, Jonna McGuyre, learned of the incidents from her child and her sister. McGuyre told The Decatur Daily that she was a former probationer under King's supervision. She said she signed over custody of her two young children to King on January 8, 2021, and DHR was involved in that process. The children were able to visit McGuyre's sister, who lived in the area, after King brought them to visit her parents at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2023. It was during this visit that the boy told his aunt about the abuse, and she recorded the testimony. While trick-or-treating with Woodall and their older brother, the boy told his older brother that King “would throw him in ice water, cuss him and scratch him,” according to Woodall. Woodall said the children reported the abuse to authorities shortly after. She said she believes the children were taken from King in February 2024.DHR never responded to inquiries regarding when the children were removed from King's care. After King's arrest in May 2024, her attorney, Eric Summerford, told The Daily that King “vehemently denies” the allegations in the Morgan County indictment. On May 17, an assistant district attorney moved to revoke King's bond after learning that King had “participated during bathtime” with one of the victims in violation of her bond conditions, which prohibited contact. Morgan County Circuit Judge Stephen Brown sealed King's case file on May 21. The Decatur Daily can no longer access developments in that case. In Lawrence County, court records showed King was booked into jail on her new charge on Tuesday and held on a $15,000 bond. King did not appear in the Lawrence County Jail roster on Wednesday. Court records listed no defense attorney Wednesday in King's Lawrence County case. Lawrence County District Attorney Errek Jett did not immediately respond to inquiries.
CHILD ABUSE FOSTER CARE PROBATION OFFICER LAWRENCE COUNTY MORGAN COUNTY ALABAMA
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