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The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
A Shelby County judge increases bond for a man accused of aggravated child abuse to $1 million after he tried to have it lowered.
Adam Lambert has been in jail since July with a $200,000 bond on charges of aggravated child abuse and aggravated child neglect. He filed a request to have that bond lowered to $100,000.
Lambert is accused of abusing a 2-year-old victim, leaving the child with second-degree burns over a large portion of her buttocks, burns on her hands and feet, a black eye, a fractured leg, and a fractured spine.
Lambert denied causing the injuries but did acknowledge that he was area of some of them and failed to seek medical care for the child.
Evidence presented by Assistant District Attorney Tanisha Johnson showed the extent of the abuse and also highlighted Lambert’s prior criminal history, including a number of misdemeanor convictions in four other states.
Judge Lee Coffee then stated that evidence showed that the child was “basically butchered” and determined that the original bond was inadequate and, instead of lowering it, raised it to $1 million.
