ANGELINA COUNTY \u2014 The Angelina County Sheriff\u2019s Office has made an arrest in what an investigator called the worst child abuse death he has seen. Kerry Jock Woodard, 28, is charged with capital murder in connection with the December 2010 beating death of his then-girlfriend\u2019s 3-year-old son.<\/p>\n
After having been in Woodard\u2019s care while the mother was at work last December, the boy was rushed to a local hospital with serious injuries. He was then airlifted to Texas Children\u2019s Hospital in Houston, where he later died. Although investigators were called to Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin the night the boy was brought in, it took months of investigation to implicate Woodard.<\/p>\n
An autopsy report released in October showed the boy suffered more than 100 contusions all over his body, a lacerated liver, and subdural hematomas often seen in shaken baby cases. Cooper said the boy\u2019s death is the worst case of child abuse he\u2019s seen in his career.<\/p>\n
Investigators took Woodard, a registered sex offender, into custody Wednesday evening. If convicted, Woodard faces the death penalty. He remained in the Angelina County Jail Thursday morning. Bond had not been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ANGELINA COUNTY \u2014 The Angelina County Sheriff\u2019s Office has made an arrest in what an investigator called the worst child abuse death he has seen. Kerry Jock Woodard, 28, is charged with capital murder in connection with the December 2010 beating death of his then-girlfriend\u2019s 3-year-old son. After having been in Woodard\u2019s care while the … Continue reading Lufkin Man Charged in Death of Toddler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 02:45:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150064,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150063\/revisions\/150064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}