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Catawba County Woman Enters Plea On Charges Of Assaulting Children

July 19, 2025 By Richard C. Gilbert

Kaleigh Gambill

A former daycare worker in Conover is serving a sentence in the Catawba County Jail after she entered a plea in court.

30-year-old Kaleigh Elizabeth Gambill of Newton was arrested in February and charged with assaulting more than a dozen children while employed at the Woodlawn Baptist Church Development Center. Some of the incidents were said to be captured on video.

On Thursday, July 17, Gambill entered a plea of guilty to 8 counts of assault on a child under the age of 12. She was ordered to serve 8 days in jail followed by 18 months of supervised probation.

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