Brewton pair jailed for sex abuse

A Brewton couple was arrested on sex and abuse charges with the man accused of having sex with a girl as young as 8-years old and the female being complicit by being told of the abuse and doing nothing to stop it.

Roy Thomas Lampley, Jr., 49, and Tammy Michelle Wells, 45, both of 547 Hall Creek Road, were charged with sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years of age and willful abuse of a child. Wells is being held on $150,000 bond and Lampley is being held on $250,000 bond.

According to the arrest warrants, Lampley is accused of exposing the minor girl to sexual contact between 2018 and 2020. He is also accused of pushing the child down causing her to hit her head in the yard. The warrant also states Lampley chased the child through the trailer and punched a hole in the bathroom door threatening to beat the child. He's then accused of slamming the child's head in the front door of the mobile home but said it wasn't intentional.

In Wells's arrest warrant it states the child told her that Lampley had touched her private areas under her clothes on more than one occasion. The child also told someone else, who reported to Wells that the child had told her she lost her virginity to Lampley when she was 8 years old.

"Tammy Wells had knowledge of the abuse by Roy Lampley and did nothing about it," the warrant reads.

The warrant also said Wells knew about the physical abuse of the child by Lampley. It states Wells witnessed Lampley shutting the child's head in the trailer door and said it was an accident.

"Tammy Wells did nothing about the physical and sexual abuse" on the child by Lampley, the warrant stated.

During Wells' bond hearing, Assistant District Attorney Todd Stearns told District Judge Eric Coale that Wells had allowed the abuse to continue and did nothing to stop it. He also noted that she was a convicted felon. Wells was convicted of theft of property II in 2006 in Baldwin County.

During Lampley's bond hearing, Assistant District Attorney Joe Whitt asked Judge Coale to set the bond at the maximum allowed by law. Coale set the bond at $250,000 with stipulations that if he's released from jail he's to have no contact with the victim or any child under the age of 18.