13YO Boy Spent Final Days Lying On The Bathroom Floor, Unable To Speak, Move, Or Stand Being Berated & Hit With Skillet

[Sugar Cookie]

Jacqueline Elizabeth Adams, 58, has been arrested in connection to the death of a 13-year-old family member who was in her care in Calera.

Ledarius Johnson was taken to the Shelby Baptist Medical Center on Aug. 8, and died there that day, according to the coroner.

Adams was taken into custody Monday in Gardendale by the U.S. Marshals Service.

She was indicted on felony murder and aggravated child abuse charges.

Woman arrested in death of 13-year-old family member in Calera

Jacquline Adams was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in Gardendale.

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According to a court order that denied bond for Adams, she became responsible for the boy and his two siblings after their adoptive father, her brother, died in December of 2023.

Authorities said the child weighed only 86 pounds at the time of his death.

Authorities said police responded to a medical assist call that turned into a cardiac arrest. Court documents state medical personnel attempted life-saving measures on the unresponsive child.

He was taken to Shelby Baptist Medical Center where further life-saving measures were unsuccessful.

More details revealed after bond denied for woman charged in boy's death in Shelby County

Jacqueline Elizabeth Adams is charged with felony murder and aggravated child abuse.

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Interior security system footage from inside the Calera home where a 13-year-old boy died in August showed the teen spent his last days on a bathroom floor where he was berated, provided little food and water and repeatedly hit with a skillet.

Investigators learned there was a an interior Vivint camera in operation in the home the night and the morning prior to the child’s death. A search warrant for the video yielded footage from inside the home from July 17 through Aug. 8.

Adams’ statements to investigators were “markedly inconsistent” with what the video showed, Bostick wrote.

While Adams said she found the children asleep in different bedrooms, the video showed that three of the child were seen to have spent the night on the bathroom floor where Ledarius was lying, unable to speak, move or stand. At times, the video showed, Ledarius was defecating on himself.

The video also showed Adams “dump” Ledarius in the bathtub, remove his clothing and a blanket and direct the other children to dispose of the items.

“She also is seen turning the camera and directing the television volume be turned up, apparently to cover up what was being said, ‘’ Bostick wrote.

Video time stamps showed that over one hour went by from the time Adams arrived home until she called 911.

A detective testified in the preliminary hearing that Adams was seen on the video berating Ledarius and denying him food and threatening him with the denial of food.

The video showed Ledarius’s condition quickly deteriorating over the month of videos and showed he was often covered in wounds and bandages.

“At times, (Adams) would also issue orders to the other children in the home to watch (Ledarius) and strike him with the skillet if he moved or did not lay correctly on the floor,’’ the judge wrote.

One of the videos showed Adams telling Ledarius as he lay on the bathroom floor that “she doesn’t need him, and he needs her and that she has food, and he needs food.”

Bostick said he denied bond because Adams is a flight risk, and because the surviving children now are staying with Adams’ daughter, who was in court supporting Adams.

Video captures emaciated teen’s horrific last days on bathroom floor, beaten with skillet, records state

Jacqueline Adams, 58, is charged with felony murder and aggravated child abuse in the Aug. 8 death of 13-year-old Ledarius Johnson.

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The surviving siblings should not have been place with this gargoyle's daughter... if the daughter is supporting her she can be pressuring the siblings to not testify against her mother.

 

[Alf]

“At times, (Adams) would also issue orders to the other children in the home to watch (Ledarius) and strike him with the skillet if he moved or did not lay correctly on the floor,’’ the judge wrote.

What the everlovvin fuck‽

 

[cubby]

How do you lay correctly on the floor?

Just another imaginary infraction to justify hitting him with the frying pan. How are people like this able to get away with this stuff until it's too late to save the child?

Poor little guy 86lbs, Grandmonkey is 10 she weighs 107, she a little chunky but not much.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

How do you lay correctly on the floor?

Just another imaginary infraction to justify hitting him with the frying pan. How are people like this able to get away with this stuff until it's too late to save the child?

Poor little guy 86lbs, Grandmonkey is 10 she weighs 107, she a little chunky but not much.

If the adoption was subsidized for the brother she was receiving that money to beat and abuse all the children.

The surviving children may or may not have been physically abused but they definitely were mentally abused.... and did what they felt they needed to do to survive.