Athens jailer charged with assaulting teen during sexual encounter

By Joe Johnson

The Madison County man who was fired this week from his job as a jailer in Athens had been arrested for allegedly assaulting a teenage girl during a sexual encounter in Dudley Park.

The victim was transported to the hospital for injuries to her face where Jayden Antwon Cole had punched her.

The 17-year-old Athens girl told police that she and Cole had been in his truck at the park when he became enraged because she stopped performing oral sex on him.

After punching the victim multiple times Cole drove away from the park, leaving the victim behind, bleeding from the injuries to her face.

When police later found and arrested Cole on charges of kidnapping, battery, false imprisonment, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

He continued on Friday to be held without bail in the same facility where he used to work,