Capital Murder Trial for Sex Offender Underway

LUFKIN — The capital murder trial of Kerry Jock Woodard, a Lufkin sex offender accused in the December 2010 death of his girlfriend�s 3 year old son, started yesterday. According to KETK, Woodard�s case will be heard by an Angelina County jury in state district Judge Barry Bryan�s courtroom. Woodard was charged with capital murder in the beating death of Zi�Keishun �Zi� Lane, who was injured while in Woodard�s care while the child�s mother, Valerie Mosby, was at work.

Lane was rushed to a local hospital, and then airlifted to a Houston hospital, where he later died. His autopsy showed more than 100 bruises and liver damage. At the time of Woodard�s arrest, the Angelina County Sheriff�s Department called it the worst alleged child abuse death they�d seen.