Two men plead guilty to burning body of deceased Pinson woman

Two Birmingham men have admitted to burning the body of a Pinson woman last year.

Nathaniel Fortune, 32, and Kenneth Childers, 28, pleaded guilty to corpse abuse in an incident behind a home in Fairfield. The men were charged with setting fire to the body of Megan Monroe.

The pleas were entered before Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff Circuit Judge David Hobdy, in whose court Childers was scheduled to stand trial on Monday. Court records indicate that Childers entered a blind plea, which means that he did not seek a plea bargain with prosecutors. He will be sentenced on Jan. 7.

Fortune had entered his guilty plea last month, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. That sentence is to be served concurrently with 5-year sentences handed down in an unrelated narcotics-possession case.

According to statements in the indictments against the two men, Monroe was already dead from a drug overdose when her body was taken to the house on 40th Street in Fairfield, where it was then set on fire.