More victims identified in investigation of GBI agent charged with molesting Macon boys

The investigation of a former GBI agent charged with molesting three boys has revealed other alleged victims in Georgia and Tennessee, as well as an allegation in Dallas, Texas.

Bill Bodrey, assistant special agent in charge of the GBI's Perry office, testified during a hearing Wednesday that 34-year-old Charles Woodall also was investigated in 2014, but insufficient evidence was found to prosecute.

Since authorities launched a new investigation about two months ago, allegations brought forward by others have corroborated the account that the boy in the 2014 case described, he said.

Details of the case against Woodall were discussed during Wednesday's commitment hearing, held to help a judge determine if there's enough probable cause for a criminal case to move forward.

After more than an hour of testimony, the judge bound the case over to Bibb County Superior Court, where Woodall will await a grand jury's decision on whether to issue an indictment in the case.

The judge also denied bond for Woodall, who was arrested Nov. 9 at his family's home in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was transferred to the Bibb County jail, where he's been held without bond.

He is charged with nine counts of child molestation, six counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes, one count of electronically furnishing obscene material to minors, and violating his oath of office.

The charges stem from allegations that he molested three boys between September 2005 and February 2014.

Woodall, who became a GBI agent in December 2011, resigned in lieu of termination last month during the investigation.

He'd been assigned to the GBI's Milledgeville field office, but he had interned at the Perry office before being hired as an agent.

When speaking with the GBI, one of the boys said he'd met Woodall at Northway Church on Zebulon Road in north Macon, Bodrey testified.

Woodall was a small group leader and mentor for the church's youth and played in a church band, Bodrey said.

The boy told agents that his sexual contact with Woodall began when he was 13 or 14 years old, after the boy had confessed that he was addicted to pornography, Bodrey said.

Woodall offered to help the boy. Between 2009 and 2014, he drove the boy from his home to Woodall's home or from church to Woodall's home, where Woodall provided a sex toy and pornography to the boy, and touched the boy's genitals, Bodrey testified.

Later, after the boy turned 16 and Woodall had left his position at the church to become a GBI agent, Woodall and the boy met at a motel room, where Woodall again provided pornography and a sex toy, and touched the boy's genitals, Bodrey said.

Agent Jason Shoudel testified that Woodall provided pornography and a sex toy for two other boys, whom he drove individually from their home north of Macon to his home in Macon, where he coached them on how to pleasure themselves.

"He called it being his accountability partner with the church," Shoudel said.

Between 2005 and 2007, one of the boys alleges that he had contact with Woodall once or twice a month, beginning when he was 12 or 13.

Years later, when the boy was 16 or 17, Woodall took the boy to a location outside Bibb County and gave him alcohol, Shoudel said.

Another boy alleges that he had contact with Woodall at least a dozen times between 2009 and 2011 when he was between 14 and 15, the agent testified.

At some point, Woodall took him to a motel room near the Mall of Georgia, north of Atlanta, where he gave him alcohol and touched his genitals, Shoudel said.

When questioned by Woodall's lawyer, Bodrey said Woodall's computer was searched during the 2014 investigation and no pornography was found.

Shoudel said a flash drive, a portable data storage device, found on Woodall at the time of his arrest still is being examined by the GBI. There's evidence of some deleted images, but he didn't know the content of the images Wednesday.

Information from Telegraph archives was used in this report. To contact writer Amy Leigh Womack, call 744-4398 or find her on Twitter@awomackmacon.

This story was originally published November 25, 2015 at 4:59 PM with the headline "More victims identified in investigation of GBI agent charged with molesting Macon boys ."