Inset: Chloe Jackson-Jones (Coweta County Sheriff's Office). Background: The Coweta County Detention Center: (Google Maps)
A 42-year-old adoptive mother in Georgia will spend decades in prison after years of torturing, caging and abusing her 11-year-old son, who escaped in 2023 by breaking through a wall and jumping from a second-story window. He was later found running through the streets covered in scars.
Coweta Superior Court Judge Emory Palmer on Wednesday sentenced Chloe Jackson-Jones to 40 years in a state correctional facility followed by 20 years of probation, court records show.
The sentence was handed down after Jackson-Jones reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault with family violence, two counts of false imprisonment and 17 counts of first-degree cruelty to children.
District Attorney John Herbert Cranford Jr. told the Newnan Times-Herald that his office would have sought an even longer sentence, if possible.
"The punishment proscribed by law is too good for this defendant, and it is the desire of this Office that she serve every day of the next 40 years," he said in a statement.
As Law&Crime previously reported, officers at about 6:41 p.m. on July 5, 2023, responded to a call about an 11-year-old boy running down the street, visibly frightened, when two good Samaritans found him.
At the Bullsboro Crossing subdivision, first responders spoke with the child and the witnesses who stayed with him. Detectives who spoke with the child said they noticed scars and markings on his body that appeared to be "consistent with long-term abuse and neglect."
The good Samaritans who called the police on the victim's behalf told investigators that when they came across the victim, one of the first things he did was ask them for food.
Jackson-Jones was taken into custody on July 13, and the victim was placed in the custody of the Georgia Department of Family and Children's Services.
A copy of the probable cause affidavit obtained by the Newnan Times-Herald detailed the abuse Jackson-Jones inflicted on the victim, which police called "torture." Records show Jackson-Jones adopted the victim when he was 8.
According to the report, investigators recovered explicit photographic and video evidence of abuse on Jackson-Jones' cellphone, including photographs depicting the victim's "injured genitalia," as well as multiple photos of him completely naked and being tied up, punched, slapped and kicked.
Police said the boy was also filmed doing household chores in the nude, eating from the floor without using his hands and being assaulted by another child while scrubbing the bathroom floor. Other images showed him standing naked in a bathtub with a bloody lip and passing out while eating food in the middle of the night.
In an interview with investigators, the victim said that he lived with several other children in the home and that Jackson-Jones often encouraged them to mock and taunt him while he was being punished, per the Times-Herald.
He said that the punishments were often physically abusive and that Jackson-Jones would use her hands to strangle him, gag his mouth to prevent him from communicating and tie him to a chair. Additionally, the victim said Jackson-Jones would lock him inside his bedroom or bedroom closet — both of which locked from the outside — forcing him to spend hours in the dark without food, water or a toilet.
The boy said he finally had to "break through the sheetrock wall" of the closet and "crawl through the framing studs and jump from a second-floor window to escape the residence," police wrote, according to Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA-TV.
Prosecutors told the Times-Herald they agreed to the plea deal to save the victim from having to testify at trial.
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