Overview
- Judge Rodney Forbess sentenced Alley Bardfield, 34, after a guilty plea to predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, granting credit for time already served.
- Bardfield must register as a sex offender for life and will face three-years-to-life mandatory supervised release, with in-prison mental-health treatment recommended.
- Police said she lured the sixth grader to her Mt. Zion home for overnight “play dates” and had sex with him on March 29, 2024, after explicit Snapchat exchanges and about $700 in CashApp payments.
- A sting involving the boy and his mother, a court-ordered wiretap, and recorded calls in which she agreed to meet again led to her April 2024 arrest captured on body camera.
- Decatur Public Schools fired Bardfield after the allegations surfaced, and at sentencing the judge cited her lack of prior record and perceived rehabilitative potential, drawing objections from the child’s family.