The mom of eight arrested after her teenage twins escaped their Texas house and advised police that they had been handcuffed, overwhelmed and starved is now on the middle of a multi-state youngster abuse investigation.
Zaikiya Duncan, 40, now faces prices of aggravated assault and assault on a member of the family with a earlier conviction, whereas her boyfriend Jova Terrell, 27, faces a cost of steady violence towards the household in Harris County, Texas, in accordance with police charging paperwork obtained by The Submit.
Police began to analyze after her 15-year-old twins had been captured on video banging on a neighbor’s door for assist on Oct. 18 and the neighbor took them in, then known as authorities.
The twins advised how they had been saved in a laundry room sure with zip ties and handcuffs and made to drink bleach and cleansing merchandise.
As soon as police began searching for Duncan, she and Terrell went on the run, triggering an Amber Alert for 5 of Duncan’s youngsters, aged 14, 12, 12, 10 and seven.
Authorities later caught up with Duncan and Terrell in Louisiana, the place they're now being held on no bond, whereas they're extradited again to Texas. As soon as they're eliminated to the Lone Star State, they'll formally be charged.
The dual boy and woman, 15, are presently being handled at a youngsters’s hospital in Katy, Texas, [a Houston suburb,] in accordance with court docket paperwork. The 5 underage youngsters who had been the topic of the Amber Alert are in youngster protecting custody in Louisiana.
Duncan can also be mom to a 17-year-old son who was together with her and Terrell on the time of their arrest. He's legally thought of an grownup and was allowed to drive away along with his mom’s automotive after her arrest in Louisiana, Texas authorities revealed to The Submit.
Duncan, her boyfriend and her different youngsters, had simply moved into the home in Cypress, Texas [outside of Houston], from which the twins escaped.
Marks from handcuffs had been discovered on the kids’ our bodies.
Burn marks and scarring lined the 2 teenagers’ arms.
The twins suffered the alleged horrific abuse from their mom and her boyfriend.
The twins escaped and alerted their neighbor, who contacted police.
Neighbors say the household had solely been dwelling within the house for 2 weeks, in accordance with KPRC. The home is model new and listed as being price $600,000, in accordance with a realty web site. The house contains 4 bedrooms and a grand staircase.
There isn't a file of Duncan beforehand having any job. Nevertheless, she was convicted of cruelty to a toddler on Oct. 29, 2019, in accordance with court docket paperwork.
The costs stem from an incident in Louisiana when a toddler was abandoned. It’s unclear if that youngster was faraway from her custody, which youngsters that case concerned or when the kid was returned to her, as Louisiana youngster protecting custody officers can't publicly touch upon instances.
In response to court docket paperwork obtained by KHOU, a disturbing incident additionally occurred 10 years in the past, when Duncan’s then-5-year-old youngster was taken from her college to an area hospital for burns to his genitals, ft and different elements of the physique.
Docs decided that the kid, who additionally had bruises on his physique, was seemingly scalded by sizzling water. The age matches with that of the 15-year-old twin boy who escaped her home on Monday.
When police arrived at Duncan’s home in response to the burning incident, they discovered a 20-month-old child wrapped in clothes with its arms sure.
The daddy of a minimum of a few of Duncan’s youngsters is believed to be Nicholas Menina. The 5 youngsters named within the Amber Alert when Duncan fled all had the final title Menina and he was beforehand named as her associate in an area report by The Advocate.
Menina and his present spouse haven't responded to The Submit’s requests for remark. Menina’s Fb profile reveals he's lively with a church in Baton Rouge.
It’s unclear how lengthy Duncan and Terrell had been courting, nevertheless, the mother of eight shared photographs on her Fb of the 2 of them going again to September 2019.
Terrell is a wanna-be rapper who goes by the title YGB Joker, however seems to have had restricted success — his rap Fb web page has solely 21 likes and his posts on Instagram have attracted no feedback in any respect.
Earlier than lately transferring to Texas, Duncan lived at a number of totally different addresses in Louisiana, in accordance with public data. Her driver’s license, made public by authorities through the Amber alert, was additionally issued in Louisiana and her household are additionally listed as residing principally within the Baton Rouge space.
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