‘That’s what he gets’: Aunt beat 4-year-old nephew to death with broom, then tried to blame his 9-year-old sister



A woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing her 4-year-old nephew, King Lyons, according to The Mobile County District Attorney’s Office in Alabama.

Authorities in February 2022 initially charged both Yolanda Denise Coale, 55, and the victim’s 9-year-old sister in King’s broom beating death, but Tara Zieman, communications director for the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office, told Law&Crime on Monday that they’ve since dropped the case against the sister. She confirmed that the 9-year-old girl had no part in the killing and that the plea from Coale, who had blamed the sister the entire time, “lets that little girl off the hook.”

Yolanda Denise Coale pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing her nephew, King Lyons. (Mug shot: Mobile Police Department)

Yolanda Denise Coale pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing her nephew, King Lyons. (Mug shot: Mobile Police Department)

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