Minneapolis police arrested a 37 year-old mother, Jacquelyn Wanda Williams, and charged her with violently beating her 6 year-old boy along with her boyfriend on May 27, 2010. KARE11 TV reported that the young boy, living at the 4300 block of the Irving Avenue, was tied with a pole in the basement with a tight telephone cord and was beaten up with the extension cord repeatedly by his mother and her male friend.
Minneapolis Police Department officials reported that the lady’s boyfriend, Troy Lamont Clay, 37, thrashed the boy while the mother stood there watching. The boy was allegedly beaten up sixty to hundred times. The boy and his elder sister have been taken into a protective custody.
A complete investigation is underway to know the exact reason behind this brutal abuse.
There is absolutely no words that can describe the horror we feel reading and reporting about this news story. Unfortunately, these stories are not uncommon. There is absolutely no excuse—none—for a parent to beat a child. Even worse is when the child is restrained and beaten as a form of torture. There is no indication why these beatings occurred, as if any excuse would be justified. Although there is no civil remedy which could be available for this child to be compensated for his injuries and the wrong he has suffered, there is thankfully a criminal remedy. We hope that his mother and her boyfriend receive the maximum punishment under the law.
Ross Jurewitz is a San Diego child injury lawyer and the managing attorney of the Jurewitz Law Group, a California law firm dedicated to representing people whose child is seriously injured in a personal injury accident. If your loved one has been injured or killed in a serious injury accident in California, please order your free copy of Mr. Jurewitz’s book, The Ten Biggest Mistakes that can Destroy Your California Accident Case. It is full of helpful information that will help you protect your legal rights and it is free to all California residents.
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