A Tennessee couple and their adult son have been indicted on child sex abuse charges after Georgia investigators tipped their Tennessee counterparts to the case.
Jeffrey Wade Howell, 58; Glenda Sue Howell, 61; and Donnie Wayne Jackson, 47, were jailed last week, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday.
Jeffrey Howell was indicted in Tennessee on one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child and one count of statutory rape by an authority figure. Glenda Howell faces one count of failure to report known or suspected child abuse, and Jackson has been charged with one count of sexual battery by an authority figure.
The couple are from Leoma, Tennessee, not from from the Alabama state line in the middle portion of the state. Jackson is from Cumming, Georgia, about 40 miles north of Atlanta.
The TBI said that Glenda Howell was booked into the Lawrence County Jail in Tennessee and released when she posted a $10,000 bond. Jackson and Jeffrey Howell were arrested last month in Georgia, where they both remain jailed.
Jeffrey Howell is jailed in the Forsyth County jail on Georgia charges of child molestation, aggravated child molestation, and sexual battery of a child under 16, according to jail records.
Jackson has been charged with three counts of child molestation, two counts of aggravated sexual battery, and one count of sexual battery in Dawson County, Georgia — where he is jailed — and one count of child molestation in Forsyth County, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
The GBI said investigation began in Lumpkin County, Georgia, when deputies received a complaint in June that Jackson had molested a child. The Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office requested help from the GBI, which learned that the alleged molestation had taken place in Forsyth and Dawson Counties.
The GBI said that Jackson was a registered sex offender, convicted on eight counts of felony sexual battery in Tennessee in 2001, according to WJCL.
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[Featured image: Glenda Sue Howell/Tennessee Bureau of Investigation]
