Boy fed to pigs was beaten, confined to shower for months

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Heather Hollingsworth, The Associated Press
Updated 6:30 pm, Monday, May 22, 2017



KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A slain Kansas boy, whose remains were fed to pigs, died after escalating abuse ended with him being beaten for "stealing food" and locked naked in a shower stall for months as a closed-circuit surveillance camera recorded his deteriorating condition, according to affidavits and search warrants released Monday.

The remains of 7-year-old Adrian Jones were found in November 2015 on the family's Kansas City, Kansas, rental property after officers responded to a report of domestic abuse. The boy's stepmother, Heather Jones, said the child's father, Michael Jones, had beaten and choked her after she threatened to leave him and had fired a gun at her twice as she ran from the home. Heather Jones, worried because Michael Jones had left with six children, told authorities that Adrian had died and been fed to swine weeks earlier, according to the records.


The documents were released after Michael Jones was sentenced earlier this month to life in prison with no chance of parole for at least 25 years. An identical sentence was ordered for Heather Jones in November.

According to the records, Heather Jones told authorities that Adrian was physically abused before coming to live with the couple and had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder with severe emotional detachment. She described him as being "a psychopath, like a serial killer." She said Adrian once attempted to stab her in the abdomen when she was pregnant and that he had been a patient at several residential treatment facilities. An uncle told authorities that the child had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Stepmother-of-slain-boy-pain-compliance-does-11164679.php

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Heather Jones, Michael Jones



Adrian Jones, Rest in Peace.

[elleng]

1. Oh Baby Boy (

[StevieM]

2. So horrifying. I cannot believe the society we live in. (eom)

[mark fromelko]

3. Where is the Link?

I may or may not click on it, mind you. Not certain I want to know ALL of the details.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Sure glad you mentioned it. I just found it and put it where it should have been, already!

Thank you, very much.

It's so gruesome, I hated to post it, but it seems important people know what a lousy job state and city child protection services are doing, this is unbearable.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Am I the only one who is seeing meth head in that woman? n/t

[Judi Lynn]

26. Not at all. That struck me, too. I think the chances are very good. n/t

[sarisataka]

4. Somedays it is difficult

to remember why I am against the death penalty...

[StevieM]

5. Some days it is difficult to remember why I am in favor of humanity. (eom)

[Delphinus]

17. And these kinds of things

often make me give up on humanity.

I am so sorry he had to live in such a horrid way - I am guessing death was a welcome relief for him.

[chwaliszewski]

7. Not for me it isn't.

I'd have no problem at all throwing that piece of devil shit in with the pigs. How could someone, a father even, do that to a child?

[luvMIdog]

8. omg poor little guy. beyond sad

[democrank]

9. Precious little Adrian.....

So disturbing

[Honeycombe8]

10. OMG. Straight out of a horror movie. That poor child. The dad got ONLY 25 years??? WTH? nt

[Rorey]

11. 25 years until he's eligible for parole

His prison life will not be good, so he may not even live those 25 years. His crime is so heinous that I'd be surprised if he's ever granted parole. I can't imagine that he'd transform into a model prisoner. He's just pure evil.

[Honeycombe8]

21. He shouldn't be up for parole, ever. He killed a child in a brutal way, and then mutilated the body.

By giving the body to pigs, he mutilated it, and may have cut it up before giving it to them. That's a separate heinous crime.

Life in prison should have been sentence.

[Rorey]

24. i definitely agree with you

He deserves torture for the remainder of his days, and shouldn't be able to waste our tax dollars with useless court dates.

I disagree with his sentence, but I don't think he'll ever again be out of incarceration.

[MontanaMama]

12. Oh my.

I'm so sorry sweet boy. Rest in peace baby.

[iluvtennis]

13. This 7-year old baby was no psychopath...it was these despicable non-parents. What a-holes. GAH

[proud patriot]

15. oh that is so sad

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. This has been in the KC Star for days now.

There is another big article this morning.

[mikehiggins]

18. This boy was dead when those alleged humans fed his deceased body to the animals.

As disgusting and revolting as that was the real horror was what led to his death.

And I agree. Where were the agencies and social workers who are getting paid to protect kids like that?

How many more will die so horrifically before something changes?

And, yeah, there should be NO possibility for parole at all.

[lapislzi]

20. Agencies and social workers cost money

Money that has to be raised via taxes. And that's a dirty word. There is no money to be found for services to the poor and defenseless. Only tax cuts for the wealthy. Vouchers for private schools to insulate affluent children from the great unwashed.

The poor and defenseless should have the good manners to die quietly, out of sight. /s

Fucked up values.

[SpankMe]

19. I am intellectually opposed to the death penalty

But, from the purely emotional standpoint, I'd like to be the one to insert the I.V. in these inhuman creatures and end their shit forever. And I would hope it would burn from the inside and they'd scream all the way to their deaths.

When children are involved, I can't really control my emotions. Sorry.

[Blue_Tires]

22. no words....

[yurbud]

23. as a society, we need to think long and hard about parental rights & family reunification as a main

goal.

With certain kinds of abuse, the parents should be able to get back supervised visits at best and no overnights until the kid is old enough to fight back or call the cops if then.

[FiveGoodMen]

25. One face that's easy to love and two that are impossible not to hate