Following a three-day jury trial in Sumner County Criminal Court, Assistant District Attorneys Nathan Nichols and Tara Wyllie secured aggravated child neglect convictions on Wednesday, June 17 against a Hendersonville woman who exposed two children left in her care to a man she knew was a child sexual abuser, resulting in the eventual sexual abuse of both children.
During the trial, evidence showed that in 2006, Stacy Dawn Alessio, 46, of Hendersonville, walked in on her then-husband, Christopher Howard Alessio, sexually abusing a child who was living in the couple’s White House home. Rather than intervening or reporting Christopher Alessio’s activities, Stacy Alessio threw the child out of her home and, when the child reported the abuse to her family sometime later, failed to confirm that the victim’s allegations were true.
While Stacy and Christopher Alessio were going through a divorce in 2013, Stacy Alessio sent a Facebook message to the 2006 victim, apologizing for not protecting her and acknowledging the accusations made by the victim were true…