Lufkin Sex Offender Sentenced to Life for Child’s Death

LUFKIN — Jurors in Lufkin found Kerry Jock Woodard guilty of first-degree murder just before 1:30 pm Monday. According to KETK, Woodard’s charge was reduced from capital murder to first-degree murder on Friday. Jurors sentenced Woodard to life in prison late Monday evening.

Woodard, a Lufkin sex offender, was accused in the December 2010 death of his girlfriend’s 3 year old son. Zi’Keishun “Zi” Lane was injured while in Woodard’s care while the child’s mother, Valerie Mosby, was at work. Lane was rushed to a local hospital, and then airlifted to a Houston hospital, where he later died. His autopsy showed more than 100 bruises and liver damage. At the time of Woodard’s arrest, the Angelina County Sheriff’s Department called it the worst alleged child abuse death they’d seen.