$200K Bond Set For Bartow Man Accused Of Assaulting Grandmother

CARTERSVILLE, GA — A Cartersville man that authorities say fractured his grandmother’s skull when he beat her with her own cane, had his bond set Monday at $200,000.

Jonathan Dakota Crump, 22, has been in the Bartow County jail since the April 20 incident. He is charged with aggravated battery and aggravated assault, both felonies, in connection with the incident.

According to Cherokee Judicial Circuit Assistant District Attorney Whitney Law as reported by The Daily Tribune News in Cartersville, police found Crump “standing with his fists clenched over an elderly female.” Law said Crump was alleged to have hit his 64-year-old grandmother twice with a cane, then to have repeatedly punched her.

“She was covered in a large amount of blood,” Law said to Judge Suzanne H. Smith. “The defendant had blood on his hands, he had blood splattered on his torso.”

Law told the court the victim suffered “a large laceration to her head,” “a blackened eye that was so severe that she could not see out of it,” and a “basal skull fracture” emergency medical personnel said could be “life threatening.”

Public defender Rose Woodbury had initially asked for a $50,000 bond, but one of Crump’s relatives asked it be set so high no family member could bail him out. Crump previously had served 90 days in jail for a misdemeanor family-violence charge in 2018.

“Obviously, he has a long history of problems,” said Roger Bonine, Crump’s uncle and the grandmother’s son-in-law. “How many times does somebody have to be given a second chance before we move on to stiffer punishment?”

If released from custody before his trial, Crump will be required to have no contact with his grandmother.

Read the story in The Daily Tribune News.