Lavorgia L. Warren, 43, of Brunswick, GA, was found guilty by a Glynn County jury on June 25, 2024, of one count of child molestation and two counts of cruelty to children in the first degree.
The evidence presented at trial showed that between April and September 2020, Warren frequently stayed at the home of the two male victims’ mother in an apartment complex in Brunswick. The boys were 11 years old and 6 years old at the time. When their mother was not home, Warren would beat the boys with a five-foot-long bamboo stick and fondle the elder boy's genitals at night.
The boys stayed with their mother on weekends and lived with their grandmother during the week to attend school. After they began having nightmares and their grandmother noticed injuries on their bodies, she notified the police. Evidence presented at trial included the bamboo stick, photos and diagrams of injuries, forensic interviews of the children, videos of nightmares, and testimony from the two boys.
Assistant District Attorney Melanie Fenley and Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Whitney Gregory prosecuted the case for the State. DC Gregory stated, “These two boys suffered at the hands of a man their mother trusted. If not for their grandmother, who supported her grandsons in their trauma, who knows how long they may have been made to suffer. The DA’s Office would like to thank the law enforcement professionals who worked this case along with Dontrell Norman, the former forensic interviewer, and Bethany Browning, the former Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner who testified for the State.”
Warren was sentenced on June 28 before Judge Stephen D. Kelley to 20 years on each count to run concurrently.
Members of the media with further questions may contact the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office at 912-554-7200.