A 14-year-old boy frantically ran out of his Cleveland home last Wednesday covered in blood. He ran to a neighbor's house desperately seeking refuge from the woman who had beaten him to a pulp. The monster who had attacked the young boy was his own mother. The neighbor immediately called police, and Talthina Jackson was arrested.
Jackson is due in court on Tuesday for 12 counts of child endangerment, felony assault, domestic violence and aggravated menacing -- all horrific acts of torture that she inflicted upon her own children (two sons, 14 and 15, and daughter, 8 months).
Investigators were sickened by what the twisted mom allegedly did to her boys. According to Cuyahoga County Spokesperson Ryan Miday, when the 37-year-old mother caught her 14-year-old playing on the computer in her bedroom, she thought he was stealing from her. Upon her discovery, she bit his jaw, beat the boy mercilessly first with a set of keys and then with an aerosol can, choked the boy, and finally pummeled him with a hot iron, scalding his leg and leaving an imprint. She also threatened her son with a knife.
Police records state that the 14-year-old had been tortured from January to August.
The 14-year-old had also endured other criminal acts of abuse, such as being locked in his bedroom for so long that he had to urinate out of the window and defecate in the closet for fear of being hit for leaving the room.
As if that wasn't enough, when Jackson allegedly entered his bedroom and noticed the feces, she made him eat it and then gave him a plastic bag in which to vomit. In another incident, prosecutors stated that Jackson thought the boy had urinated on plastic that was laid out to paint, so she made him lick it up. The liquid was cat urine.
Reportedly, Jackson also made her 14-year-old eat cat food, after she realized he fed the cats before she had. When the boy threw it up, she made him eat his own vomit, according to prosecutor Jeffrey Schnatter.
Jackson's 15-year-old boy was discovered covered in scars from beatings with a pole.
Police are investigating why social workers had been called to the residence in early August. In the meantime, all three children have been placed in foster care.
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