The parents (pictured left) of a 15-year-old, autistic girl in Atlanta are facing prison time for starving and beating their daughter and forcing her to live in her own waste. The girl’s mother, Jade Marie Jacobs, 35, was arrested on charges of malicious child cruelty. Gwinnett County authorities continue their pursuit of Jacobs’ husband and the girl’s stepfather William Brown, 40. He faces the same charges.
The 15 year old was forced to live on a tiny mat and reportedly weighed a mere 60 pounds. Jacobs reportedly left her, with bruises, in an Atlanta hospital earlier this month, saying she “could not do it anymore,” according to theAtlanta Journal-Constitution.
After Jacobs left the teen at the hospital, police visited her home, which neighbors say she’s only inhabited for a few weeks. What they discovered was horrifying. “There was a tile floor with a small two-by-two foot mat along with some clothes that were stained with feces and urine,” said Gwinnett Police Cpl. Ed Ritter to WSB. “There were actually feces on the floor and the entire room smelled of feces and urine,” Ritter added.
Jacobs claimed the bruises on the girl’s body came from a fight with her sisters. She said the girl’s unhealthy weight was the result of her refusal to eat.
Shockingly, Jacobs had already been charged with child abuse, second-degree assault, and reckless endangerment, in 2000, for putting a baby in hot bathwater, according to the Daily Mail.
[Image: Gwinnett County Police Dept.]
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