A mother in Tarrant County was finally sentenced on Friday for poisoning her toddler in 2022.
Jeskia Jones administered at least 4 – 6 adult-strength Benadryl to her daughter, causing her to experience tremors. Then, the mother took her daughter to the hospital, alleging that her four-year-old child had a seizure disorder.
Jones admitted to poisoning her daughter, resulting in her receiving a 60-year sentence on August 9, 2024.
The chief investigator working on the case suspects that the 32-year-old mother had been mistreating several of her children.
“In this case, I had a confession,” said Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office Det. Michael Weber, per Fox 4 KDFW. “We had evidence in the child’s blood, and we had evidence in mom’s purse.”
Here is more of what Fox 4 had to report on this disturbing case:
Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office Det. Michael Weber says Jones admitted to giving at least 4-6 adult-strength Benadryl in order to make the child shake and present signs of a seizure disorder.
“In this case, I had a confession,” he said. “We had evidence in the child’s blood, and we had evidence in mom’s purse.”
Weber says there’s evidence and testimony that Jones previously presented at least one of her other children as having epilepsy when that child did not.
Weber calls this medical child abuse and says his office had charged more than a dozen cases.
“They either exaggerate, falsify or induce medical symptoms in their child in order to fulfill an intrinsic need in themselves,” he said.
When Jones was out on bond last October, she violated bond by having contact with a child and was arrested this April.
Then in July, Jones violated her bond again by having contact with the child of a man she was trying to date.
That child testified that Jones became interested in medications she was prescribed after a surgery and befriended her.
“No bond revocation hearing was sought. That is a failure in the criminal justice system, specifically a failure by the Tarrant County DA’s Office,” Weber said. “It is a frustration of mine that that office continues to view these offenders as not a threat to the public at large or additional children.”
