Howard Anderson, 54, was sentenced to three life sentences for the aggravated child abuse of three children in Dale County, Alabama. Anderson and his girlfriend, Ashley Ableman, were arrested in October 2023 after authorities discovered evidence of prolonged physical abuse, including punching, burning, and confinement with an electrical cord. Ableman pleaded guilty in June 2024 and was sentenced to five years in prison.
OZARK -- A man with convictions in Florida and New Jersey now faces three life sentences in Alabama prison.
At a pretrial detention hearing held before District Judge Stan Garner in October 2023, Dale County Sheriff’s Investigator Bryce Woodham testified that the “prolonged physical child abuse,” of the children “varied according to the child but included, and other things, punching in the face and stomach, confining with an electrical cord, holding underwater, burning, and striking the children with various objects, including a baseball bat.
Anderson, who was identified by the children as the primary abuser, was found guilty of aggravated child abuse and chemical endangerment of a child Dec. 17 of last year. Jackson agreed."This case weights heavily on everyone involved. To hear these children testify to the horrific beatings, chokings, burns, and drowning attempts at the hands of this monster is gut-wrenching," she said."These children normalized so much of the horrific abuse that I truly believe that we will never know the extent of what they went through.
Thirty-third Judicial Circuit Assistant District Attorney Jordan Davis had asked the court to impose three life sentences on the child abuse charges to run consecutively but the judge ruled that they will run concurrently."As long as I have breath in my body, I will fight to keep Anderson where he rightfully belongs, which is in prison rotting away," said 33rd Judicial Circuit District Attorney Kirke Adams following the sentencing.
CHILD ABUSE SENTENCE ALABAMA PRISON HOWARD ANDERSON ASHLEY ABLEMAN
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