On June 13, the Hooks Police Department secured arrest warrants for Texarkana, Texas resident Jatoria Renae Cleamons. The 21-year-old is facing charges of injury to a child and manslaughter in relation to the death of her 8-month-old son.
The child’s incident was discovered on February 4, when Hooks police officers and deputies from the Bowie County Sheriff’s Office responded to a medic assist call at 100 Kennedy Circle in Hooks, Texas. Police arrived to find emergency medical responders conducting CPR on an 8-month-old toddler. Sadly, they failed to bring him back to life, according to KSLA.
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Justice of the Peace Jay Wommack directed that the baby be taken to the Southwest Institute of Forensics for an autopsy.
After that, a joint investigation was launched by the Hooks Police Department, the Texarkana Texas Police Department, and investigators from the Bowie County District Attorney’s Office.
Cleamons allegedly told authorities that when bathing her 8-month-old son at 4624 Elizabeth in Texarkana, Texas, she immersed him in boiling water, resulting in significant burns.
According to Cleamons, she became frustrated with her son for defecating in his diaper. Officials with the Hooks Police Department said the infant passed away about two weeks later while Cleamons was staying with a family in Hooks, Texas.
The autopsy revealed that the cause of death was thermal injuries (scalding), and the manner of death was homicide.
