Year after 16-year-old Alexis Sluder's death at Georgia juvenile detention facility, 5 former employees are indicted

Five former employees at a northwest Georgia juvenile detention center have been indicted following the August 2022 death of a 16-year-old who was in custody.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Friday that a Whitfield County grand jury on Monday had indicted the former director and nurse at the Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center in Dalton, as well as three former guards.

All are accused of cruelty to children in the death of Alexis Sluder, an Ellijay girl who had been transferred to the detention center. Whitfield County Coroner Greg Bates told WTVC-TV last year that Sluder had only been at the detention facility less than 24 hours prior to her death.