{"id":3865,"date":"2026-03-17T04:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duye.live\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:59:45","slug":"swisher-county-man-girlfriend-indicted-for-numerous-sex-crimes-involving-5-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duye.live\/?p=3865","title":{"rendered":"Swisher County man, girlfriend, indicted for numerous sex crimes involving 5-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Swisher County man, girlfriend, indicted for numerous sex crimes involving 5-year-old girl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by\u00a0Jamie Burch, ABC 7 NewsThu, March 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/news\/local\/gallery\/swisher-county-man-girlfriend-indicted-numerous-sex-crimes-involving-girl-5-zackery-dondlinger-happy-texas-madison-paige-jones-substitute-teacher-midlothian-isd-aggravated-sexual-assault-of-a-child-possession-of-child-pornography-indecency-with-a-child?photo=1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madison Jones andZackery Dodlinger (Credit: Midlothian Police Department and Winkler County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/topic\/Swisher%20County\">Swisher County<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/topic\/Sex%20crimes\">Sex crimes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/topic\/Child%20abuse\">Child abuse<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/topic\/Indictment\">Indictment<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/topic\/Zackery%20Dondlinger\">Zackery Dondlinger<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/topic\/Madison%20Jones\">Madison Jones<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/topic\/Child%20pornography\">Child pornography<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/topic\/Bond%20increase\">Bond increase<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>ELLIS COUNTY, Texas (KVII) \u2014&nbsp;A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/news\/local\/zackery-dondlinger-happy-texas-sexual-performance-by-a-child-madison-jones-substitute-teacher-midlothian-isd-aggravated-sexual-assault-of-a-child-possession-of-child-pornography-indecency-with-child\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Swisher County man, and his girlfriend,<\/a>&nbsp;were indicted for numerous sex crimes involving a 5-year-old girl in North Texas. As a result, their combined bonds soared to nearly $9 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zackery Dondlinger, 37, from Happy, was Indicted March 4 by an Ellis County grand jury on 20 counts of child sex crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aggravated sexual assault of a child &#8211; 13 counts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indecency with a child exposes &#8211; 3 counts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indecency with a child sexual contact &#8211; 2 counts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sexual performance by a child &#8211; 1 count<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession with intent to promote child pornography &#8211; 1 count<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Madison Paige Jones, 30, was indicted on 19 counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aggravated sexual assault of a child &#8211; 13 counts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indecency with a child exposes &#8211; 4 counts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indecency with a child sexual contact &#8211; 1 count<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession with intent to promote child pornography &#8211; 1 count<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Police in Midlothian were called in December called to investigate a report of a potential sexual assault involving a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alleged abuse happened from December 5-17, 2025, and involved a single victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two days later, they arrested Jones.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/news\/local\/zackery-dondlinger-happy-texas-sexual-performance-by-a-child-madison-jones-substitute-teacher-midlothian-isd-aggravated-sexual-assault-of-a-child-possession-of-child-pornography-indecency-with-child\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">At the time, she was a substitute teacher<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dondlinger was arrested two days before Christmas on a oil rig site about an hour west of Odessa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the indictments, his bond was increased from $200,000 to $5,000,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/duye.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-184.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3866\" style=\"width:735px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swisher County man, girlfriend, indicted for numerous sex crimes involving 5-year-old girl by\u00a0Jamie Burch, ABC 7 NewsThu, March 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM Madison Jones andZackery Dodlinger (Credit: Midlothian Police &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}