06/17/2026
Sentencing Update:
Judge Charles Elliott sentenced Romauldo Jimenez today to twenty (20) years in the Alabama Department of Corrections. This was the maximum sentence allowed by law.
TRINITY MAN CONVICTED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING CHILD
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE MORGAN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
May 14, 2026 — Decatur, AL — Romauldo Jimenez, age 62 of Trinity, was convicted this week of Sexual Abuse of a Child Under 12. The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Courtney Schellack. The trial was presided over by Circuit Judge Charles Elliott.
In September 2018, an officer with the Decatur Police Department was dispatched to an address in southwest Decatur. A mother had left her residence to run a short errand and had left her eight ( 8 ) year old child home with her cousin’s father. Upon returning home, the child was no longer playing in the yard. The mother called for her child inside the home. The child came out of a room with her shirt on backwards and her shorts unbuttoned. The mother questioned what had happened and the child disclosed that Romauldo Jimenez had been sexually abusing her.
Following an investigation by Decatur Police Department and the Morgan County Department of Human Resources, with the assistance of the Morgan County Child Advocacy Center and Crisis Services of North Alabama, Jimenez was arrested and charged with Sexual Abuse of a Child Under 12.
Assistant District Attorney Courtney Schellack said after the verdict, “This child was left with someone her mother trusted. She was left for less than thirty minutes. Her mother will regret those minutes for the rest of her life. This child bravely faced the man who had threatened and abused her, and she told the jury what he did to her. This jury gave her the justice she deserves.”
Jimenez is facing up to twenty (20) years in the Alabama Department of Corrections. He will remain at the Morgan County Jail until his sentencing on June 17, 2026.
