COVINGTON â Newton Countyâs controversial coroner has informed Commission Chairman Marcello Banes that she expects the county to pay for her legal defense against the countyâs efforts to have her removed from office.
County Manager Lloyd Kerr filed a petition Jan. 29 with the state Coronerâs Training Council to remove Coroner Dorothea Bailey-Butts from office, alleging several incidents of misconduct.
Bailey-Butts was elected in November and took office on Jan. 1.
In a Feb. 10 letter to Chairman Banes, obtained by the Citizen through an Open Records Act request, Bailey-Butts asks that the county provide the âpayment of an attorney of my choice as legal counsel in defending the Office of the Coroner against these baseless claims⦠â
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COVINGTON, Ga. - Jan. 22 in Newton County on Highway 212, a car left the roadway, drove through a ditch for 507 feet, then traveled back onto the highway and hit another car head-on. That s according to a Newton County Sheriff’s report.
The newly elected Newton County coroner arrived at the scene of a deadly car wreck.
According to sheriff’s department reports, Coroner Doretha Bailey-Butts took a couple of photos of the deceased, left a body bag on the trunk of the deceased car and then told police she was leaving without transporting the body.