An Alabama corrections officer was arrested in April on a child abuse charge, according to a release from the Atmore Police Department.
Police said officers were called to a home on April 16 for a report of child abuse. Officers found a child with injuries and notified the Alabama Department of Human Resources along with an on-call investigator.
According to the department, the investigator concluded that Lateshia Monique Lewis Jackson, 43, had caused the child’s injuries. Jackson, whose relationship to the child was described as stepparent, was arrested and charged with willful abuse of a child and taken to the Escambia County Detention Center.
Police said the alleged abuse did not occur at the residence officers were originally called to, but at a different home.
The charge is an accusation, and Jackson is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.