The Cobb County Solicitor’s Office has officially charged a Georgia sheriff accused of groping a prominent TV Judge – Judge Hatchett, who is now 70 years old.
Prosecutors said former Bleckley County Sheriff Kris Coody groped Judge Glenda Hatchett at a sheriff’s convention earlier this year, Media Take Out confirmed.
Thomas Brown, the former sheriff of DeKalb County, was a witness to the horrible criminal incident.
Brown said that Hatchett was his guest at the conference, and that Coody groped Hatchett as he was introducing her to sheriffs at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Bar.
Brown said three sheriffs came to the standup table, including Coody and the president of the Georgia Sheriff’s Association. Brown said he turned his head away from Coody and Hatchett as they were talking.
“As I turned to my left to focus back on the two of them, I saw his hand go down on her left breast,” Brown said. “I grabbed his arm threw it off of her chest and basically said, ‘What are you (adjective) think you’re doing?’ and that’s basically where it ended.”
“He was obviously intoxicated.”
Brown said he immediately removed Hatchett from the room and had a stern conversation with Coody the next day.
Coody has since been charged with sexual battery.
