KJ Biermann is out of jail but living under severe restrictions at his mother’s Georgia home.
The 15-year-old son of Kim Zolciak, 48, and Kroy Biermann, 41, was released this week after nearly a month at Atlanta’s Metro Youth Detention Center, and a judge’s bond conditions have effectively cut him off from typical teenage life. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Melynee Leftridge granted KJ $200,000 bond on Sept. 11, according to a Sept. 15 filing, but imposed rules that include virtual schooling, no cellphone, no social media, no sports, and electronic monitoring while he remains inside his mother’s roughly 4,000-square-foot, six-bedroom Alpharetta residence.
KJ is forbidden from any direct or indirect contact with the alleged victim, her family or associates, and cannot be in contact with anyone under 16. He was also required to surrender his passport to his pretrial officer before walking free.
At the bond hearing, prosecutor revelations shocked the courtroom. Multiple videos involving KJ and an underage family member were found on the teen’s cellphone, prosecutors claimed. They also alleged KJ had been under court supervision since October 2025 in connection with a prior juvenile matter.
KJ’s attorney, Jason Sheffield, pushed back hard against the prosecution’s characterization of that earlier case. In a statement, Sheffield said that “the characterizations made in court regarding the prior juvenile matter involving KJ Biermann grossly misrepresent both the facts and the ultimate resolution of that case.”
Sheffield has maintained KJ’s innocence throughout, previously saying that his client is “100% innocent” and that he “tried to present evidence to the arresting officer, including a passed polygraph by a notable and respected sex offender polygrapher.”
During the hearing itself, Sheffield argued that KJ is “not a boisterous kid,” and pointed to his reality star mother’s availability to supervise him since she is not currently employed.
Before bond was granted, sexual assault case expert and former prosecutor Lindsay Richards, who is not involved in the case, predicted exactly this kind of restrictive outcome. Richards said earlier this month that she thought there was “a likelihood he’ll be released and he will have a lot of conditions of his release.”
“I think he’ll be on a GPS. He’ll probably be on house arrest, having to do school at home,” Richards said.
Richards added that the charges are “unbelievably serious” and could result in decades of prison time if KJ is convicted.
KJ was formally indicted earlier this month on charges of aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, false imprisonment and three counts of aggravated sexual battery against a child under 16. The alleged incident occurred at a Life Time Fitness in Alpharetta, Georgia, earlier this year.
The teen’s cellphone has previously surfaced as a point of contention in his parents’ prolonged divorce case.
KJ’s next court date is a plea and arraignment hearing scheduled for Oct. 14.