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.