From Trussville Tribune staff reports
BESSEMER –The second defendant who had pleaded guilty to corpse abuse of Megan Monroe, a former Hewitt-Trussville High School student and Pinson resident, has been sentenced to six years in prison.
Kent Faulk reported that Kenneth Lamar Childers, 28, of Birmingham was sentenced to the prison term by Judge David Hobdy at the Jefferson County Cutoff Courthouse on Thursday.
Two men had pleaded guilty to corpse abuse in connection with the death of 22-year-old Monroe.
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Monroe’s body was found burning behind a house in April 2014 in the 500 block of 40th Street in Fairfield following her death. She is believed to have died of an overdose.
Childers and Nathaniel Fortune, 32, of Birmingham, both pleaded guilty to the charge.
Fortune was sentenced to 10 years in prison. His sentence will run concurrent with other convictions unrelated to this crime.