ROBERTSDALE, Alabama -- A family member of a missing teen mom last seen in the Styx River area is facing additional charges in an ongoing sexual abuse investigation in Baldwin County.
Wendy Wood Holland, 33, of Bay Minette, was arrested Aug. 22 …
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ROBERTSDALE, Alabama -- A family member of a missing teen mom last seen in the Styx River area is facing additional charges in an ongoing sexual abuse investigation in Baldwin County.
Wendy Wood Holland, 33, of Bay Minette, was arrested Aug. 22 and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.
The Baldwin County District Attorney’s office has confirmed that when she appeared in court to face that charge on Thursday she was indicted on additional charges, including sodomy of a child less than 12, sex abuse of a child less than 12 and sexual torture.
Baldwin County Corrections Facility records show that Holland was booked into the Baldwin County Jail facility on Thursday, Nov. 29 on charges of sodomy first degree. As of Monday, she remains in jail on a $200,000 bond.
Holland’s arrest in August was the sixth in connection with an investigation involving Randall Scott Wood, 42, of Athens, Tenn., and Dustin Alton Kent, 36, of Mobile, who has been arrested twice in the case, and is not related to the May 30 disappearance of 19-year-old Brittney Wood, who is the niece of Randall Wood and Dustin Kent, according to published reports.
Kent was arrested June 19 and released on $10,000 bond. He was arrested again on July 16 and again released on a $10,000 bond. Randall Scott Wood was arrested June 19 and released on a $25,000 bond.
Brittney Wood’s brother, Derek Thomas Wood, 21, of Mobile, was arrested on July 13 on felony charges of second degree rape and second degree sodomy. He was arrested again on Oct. 18 on a probation violation after failing to appear and fleeing from police in Mobile. He remains in jail without bond.
Brittney Wood’s cousin, Donald Paul Holland Jr., 20, of Daphne, was booked into the Baldwin County Corrections Facility on Tuesday, July 17, and is facing felony charges of incest and second degree rape, along with a misdemeanor charge of second degree sexual abuse. Records show he has been released on a $10,000 bond.
More than 200 volunteers, including rescue squads from Escambia County in Florida and Monroe, Mobile and Baldwin counties in Alabama, turned out to the Rosinton Fire Station June 6 and 7 to help search for the teen, who was reported missing on June 2. The group has since conducted additional searches in both Mobile and Baldwin counties, but no new evidence has been reported in the case.
According to her parents, she left their Tillman’s Corner home on May 30 and said she was going to a friend’s house. When they had not heard from her by June 2, they called and reported her missing.
Wood's family members reported her last cell phone transmission was located less than a mile away from her uncle's home in the Styx River area. Concern escalated when the uncle, Donald Holland Sr., reportedly Wendy Holland’s husband and the father of Donald Holland Jr., was found dead at his Fairhope home about a week later of an apparent self-inflicted gun-shot wound.
Volunteers conducted a two-day search with the help of California-based organization KlaasKIDS Foundation, combing an area within a five-mile radius of the uncle’s home.
Randall Wood and Kent were arrested less than two weeks later, on June 19, the result of a three-month investigation in and around the Marlow community, according to reports.
Randall Wood was booked on felony charges of second degree sodomy and incest and a misdemeanor charge of second degree sexual abuse. He was released on $25,000 bond.
Kent was booked on felony charges of first degree sodomy and second degree rape and was released on $10,000 bond. Records show he released again on a $10,000 bond after being booked July 16 on charges of second degree rape, second degree sodomy and incest.
According to reports, the latest arrest involves at least two victims. The District Attorney’s office would not confirm if the victims were boys or girls, but said new evidence led to Holland’s Nov. 29 arrest.