A Columbia man is charged with incest and sex crimes after abusing his victims for 10 years, according to the Houston County Sheriff’s Office.
Alphonzo Sanders was charged with three counts apiece of incest, first-degree rape, and sodomy.
Houston County Sheriffs said he abused his victims for a decade.
He’s being held in the Houston County Jail with bonds totaling $1,490,000.
Candace Coachman, also of Columbia, was charged with three counts of aggravated child abuse in relation to Sanders’s case. She is being held with no bond.
At the first appearance hearing for Sanders, it was revealed he fathered a child with at least one of his victims.
Two other inmates at the jail attacked Sanders during the first appearance, unfolding in a dramatic brawl on video call in front of the courtroom.
