Sentenced: Alabama Aunt Blames 9YO Girl For The Beating Death Of 4YO King Lyons

[Sugar Cookie]

Yolanda Coale, 53, was arrested Thursday, Feb. 3, and charged with aggravated child abuse.

According to Mobile Police, officers responded to a medical emergency and found the 4-year-old boy unresponsive.

Mobile Fire-Rescue also responded and pronounced the boy dead at the scene.

The boy suffered signs of child abuse, police said.

Mobile woman charged in 4-year-old boy’s death

Yolanda Coale, 53, was arrested Thursday, Feb. 3, and charged with aggravated child abuse.

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[cubby]

Why you crying? Cause you got caught? Definitely not for the baby you murdered.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A judge on Friday set a $150,000 bail for a woman charged with aggravated child abuse of a 4-year-old boy who died this week.

Police arrested Yolanda Denise Coale, 53, Thursday night on an aggravated child abuse charge. Mobile County District Judge Spiro Cheriogotis ordered that in addition to having no contact with children, Coale is to submit to electronic monitoring if she makes the $150,000 bail.

Mobile County Assistant District Attorney Louis Walker said Coale was the victim’s aunt.

“She was the legal guardian of the child. … During the course of the investigation, Mobile police found evidence of abuse for this child, and then he was found deceased yesterday,” he said after the hearing.

Many key details remain a mystery. Walker could not immediately say how long the child had lived with Coale or how she came to have custody of him. Even the cause of death is uncertain. A police spokeswoman told FOX10 News that investigators are waiting for an autopsy.

Coale has no local criminal history except for an arrest in 2005 charging her with furnishing alcohol to a minor.


Friday morning, a Mobile police officer inspected the outside of Coale’s home on Jacob Drive between Dauphin Island Parkway and Dog River.

The abuse that investigators say the boy suffered is all too common, according to Child Advocacy Center of Mobile executive director Andy Wynne.

“It’s incredibly tragic,” he said. “And unfortunately, it happens a little bit more frequently than I think people want to think about.”

Bail set for Mobile woman charged with child abuse as police probe boy’s death

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – A judge on Friday set a $150,000 bail for a woman charged with aggravated child abuse of a 4-year-old boy who died this week.

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[Sugar Cookie]

A 9-year-old girl has been charged in connection with the death of her 4-year-old brother.

The Mobile District Attorney's Office confirmed Monday the 9-year-old girl accused of beating her 4-year-old brother has been charged with assault.

Last Thursday Mobile Police responded after a 4-year-old boy, under the care of 53-year-old Yolanda Coale, was unresponsive in the home. The little boy was pronounced dead at the scene.

A neighbor said they are heartbroken to hear this happened to a child so close to their own home.

Mobile Police arrested and charged Yolanda Coale with aggravated child abuse.

Court documents now reveal more of the story saying Yolanda woke up to the screaming kids on Thursday only to find the 9-year-old girl beating her 4-year-old brother with a broomstick.

The complaint says the girl “did willfully torture, willfully abuse and cruelly beat” her brother.

The documents also claim there were past injuries and signs that indicate long-term abuse on the young boy’s body but it’s unclear how he got those injuries.

Yolanda Coale is being held on a $150,000 bond and is expected to appear in court Tuesday.

9-year-old charged with assault after police say she beat 4-year-old to death with broom

MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WPMI) -- A 9-year-old girl has been charged in connection with the death of her 4-year-old brother. The Mobile District Attorney's Office confirmed Monday the 9-year-old girl accused of beating her 4-year-old brother has been charged with assault. Last Thursday Mobile Police...

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[Kitsune Faye]

This bitch ordered her 9-year-old daughter to beat and torture her brother. Don't charge that baby.

 

[cubby]

This bitch ordered her 9-year-old daughter to beat and torture her brother. Don't charge that baby.

Either that or the girl was copying what she saw and lived.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Court ordered supervision and mandatory therapy needs to be in place for this child.

No consequences will actually be more dangerous for this child and society in general.

 

[Kitsune Faye]

Either that or the girl was copying what she saw and lived.

Right. I think she did that to her brother, lest she be tortured too. Poor baby.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A Mobile woman who is charged with aggravated child abuse in the death of a 4-year-old appeared in court on Monday.

53-year-old Yolanda Coale was the legal guardian of 4-year-old King Lyons at the time of his death.

First responders were called to a home for a medical emergency in early February. Lyons was found unresponsive and pronounced dead on the scene, according to Mobile Police.

Lyons' 9-year-old sister was later charged with assault after she allegedly beat Lyons with a broomstick, according to court documents. Lyons also had injuries that indicated long-term abuse, according to court documents.

A Mobile Police detective testified during Coale’s preliminary hearing on Monday. The detective testified Lyons was dead when they arrived the morning of February 3rd and said there were signs of recent and past physical trauma.

He said Coale told police it started hours earlier at about midnight. She heard a fight between Lyons and his 9-year-old sister when saw her hit the child with a broom. The handle broke in half during the assault. The 9-year-old told police the broom snapped against the wall. The sister was charged with assault and later said she did not hit or injure her brother when she was later in psychiatric care.

The detective describes some of the brutal abuse others say they witnessed in Coale’s home.

Two neighbor children who talked to police said they saw a number of times where Coale would hit Lyons with open-handed strikes and their mother stopped letting them come over after she heard of the abuse. One child also told police they saw Coale strip the child naked and hit him with a diamond-studded belt. They also claimed one time Coale denied the child water due to potty accidents and when she saw him drink from the toilet she allegedly laughed and said “that’s what he gets.”

One child is said to have seen Coale use things like a back scratcher, broom, and electrical cord for beatings. Testimony also revealed the existence of a so-called “lock-up room” in Coale’s house where children were put when they misbehaved and locked in using a heavy suitcase in front of the door.

What’s not clear is what exactly Coale is accused of doing or not doing that may have contributed to the death of the young boy. The state may explain more about what they say happened through court testimony.

Coale remained silent as she walked out of court at the end of the hearing. A judge said there was enough probable cause to send the case to the grand jury.

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[Sevens My Charm]

The officer said Lyons was lying on his back with a pink towel on his face when he arrived at the scene. He said there was bruising under Lyons’ eyes, a cut on the top of his nose, along with cuts to both the upper and lower lip. There was old scaring throughout his body as well, according to the officer. He said there was bruising on top of Lyons’ knee and one was even swollen. The officer said there were old scars on his lower back, including dried blood and more scars on his butt cheek.

Woman charged with child abuse in death of Mobile 4-year-old will go to grand jury

The case against Yolanda Coale, the woman charged with aggravated child abuse, is heading to a grand jury. Coale was 4-year-old King Lyons’ caregiver, the little boy who died in her custody. MORE STORIES ON THIS CASE. According to court documents, Coale awoke to the screams of Lyons and his...

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[Sugar Cookie]

- On the eve of trial, a woman charged with felony murder accepted a plea bargain Monday.

Yolanda Denise Coale, 55, pleaded guilty to reckless manslaughter of 4-year-old King Lyons.

Police initially charged Coale, who was Lyons’s guardian, with child abuse. A grand jury later upgraded the charge to felony murder, alleging she was caused his death by beating him with a broomstick. Authorities at the time charged the boy’s 9-year-old sister with assault, alleging that she had hit the boy with a broom handle. According to the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office, those charges were dismissed.

A police detective testified at Coale’s preliminary hearing last year that Lyons was stripped naked and hit with what one child described as a diamond-studded belt. The detective said there were other forms of punishment, including putting the child in a “lock-up room.

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On the morning of Feb. 3, 2022, police officers were called to the woman’s home on Jacob Drive and found the boy’s lifeless body covered in cuts and bruises in various stages of healing, suggesting prolonged abuse, according to a detective’s testimony during a preliminary hearing last year.

The boy, whose face was covered with a towel, had cuts on his nose and lips, bruising under both eyes, old scars on his back and dried blood on his buttocks, the station WPMI previously reported.

Children living in the neighborhood told police that they saw Coale hit her nephew on multiple occasions, prompting their mom to stop letting them go to the woman’s house, reported the station WKRG.

One of the young witnesses said they also saw the woman strip the 4-year-old King naked and whip him with a diamond-studded belt.

In one instance, Coale allegedly denied her nephew water because of his bathroom accidents and laughed at him when she saw the tot drinking from the toilet, saying, “That’s what he gets,” the neighborhood kids claimed.

Coale allegedly used a broom, a backscratcher and an electric cord to strike King — and she also kept a “lock-up” room in her home where children were confined as punishment for bad behavior.

Coale was previously arrested for felony murder, but on the eve of her trial, she accepted a plea deal, which saw the charge against her downgraded to manslaughter carrying a sentence of two to 20 years in prison.

Aunt admits to beating nephew to death with broom, blaming his 9-year-old sister

An Alabama woman has admitted to bashing her 4-year-old nephew to death with a broom — after she initially blamed the tot’s savage beating on his 9-year-old sister.

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I hope the lady that stopped her kids from going to the home feels like shit if she did not try to get that boy help.

twenty years is not enough for the torture she put this child through. If she gets anything less we can all collectively say "Black Children's Lives Don't Matter."

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A woman who pleaded guilty in the beating death of her 4-year-old nephew will spend 20 years in state prison, Circuit Court Judge Brandy Hambright ruled Thursday.

Yolanda Denise Coale, 55, pleaded guilty in December to reckless manslaughter for her role in the death of 4-year-old King Lyons. The boy was found unresponsive inside a home in early February 2022. Mobile Fire-Rescue personnel pronounced the child dead at the scene.

Court records show investigators believe Coale allowed the boy’s 9-year-old sister to beat him with a broomstick in February 2022. However, the boy was also found to have signs of long-term child abuse.

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[Ella Mayo]

Dear Auntie made the kids call her "Master":

Aunt who beat 4-year-old to death with broom, blamed 9-year-old sister is sentenced

Yolanda Denise Coale was sentenced to 20 years in prison for beating her 4-year-old nephew to death in Alabama and blaming the boy's injuries on his 9-year-old sister.

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[Crazy Cat Lady]

I’m glad she got the 20 years. Poor little King must have lived his life in pain and terror.

 

[420702]

One look at her and you know she's a coal demon.

 

[Krissy80]

Sadly I have a feeling we will be hearing about the 9 year old in the future with kids of her own....it takes a strong will to break the cycle of abuse and the poor sister has already taken her spot in the cycle. I pray for her.

 

[Danaf]

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Woman charged with child abuse in death of Mobile 4-year-old will go to grand jury

The case against Yolanda Coale, the woman charged with aggravated child abuse, is heading to a grand jury. Coale was 4-year-old King Lyons’ caregiver, the little boy who died in her custody. MORE STORIES ON THIS CASE. According to court documents, Coale awoke to the screams of Lyons and his...

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save the taxpayers dollars and exterminate this bitch! do what she did to that poor boy and then. Dead bitch walking! damn I want to slap those tears for herself right off her face!!!