On March 29, 2022, the police went to a house in the city of Peoria in Illinois, USA.
There they found a lifeless eight-year-old boy who weighed only 13 kilos, Navin Jones.
He was lying in a bed without either a duvet or bedclothes. According to the police officers who found him, he looked like a skeleton.
Outside the room, a handwritten note was taped to the wall:
“DO NOT give Navin food or drink. DO NOT let him out of the room! He has what he needs until I get up!”.
SAFE: Navin Jones at grandma’s house. Photo: Handout Show more
Release lifetime
Navin Jones died shortly after he was found.
The boy’s parents, Stephanie Jones (37) and Brandon Walker (41), are charged with premeditated murder.
Stephanie Jones has already pleaded guilty, and she has made a deal with the state attorney general:
If she testifies against the boy’s father during the ongoing trial against him, she will be spared life in prison.
Nevertheless, she can expect at least 20 years in prison when the sentencing comes in February.
ACCUSED: Navin Jones’ father, Brandon Walker, in the arrest photo. Photo: Police Show more ADMITTING EVERYTHING: Stephanie Jones in the police arrest photo. Photo: Police Show more
The fridge was full
In court, the police have told about the terrible sight that met them.
It was Stephanie Jones who called the police after finding her son cold and lifeless.
Videos from the police officers’ body cameras have been shown, which show what Navin Jones’ parents, according to the prosecution, hid from the rest of the world.
ROPE: According to the police, this rope was used to keep the boy’s door closed. Photo: Police Show more
Strong contrast
The police officers have told about a nicely decorated house in North Gale Avenue.
The fridge was full of food, and so were the kitchen cupboards.
Navin Jones’ room stood in stark contrast to the rest of the house.
NOTE: The parents must have hung this note in the house. Photo: Police Show more
In court, the driven investigator Roberto Vasques, who rushed to the house, said that he has never smelled a similar smell before.
The room was covered in faeces and urine, according to the prosecution, and there was only a dirty bed in the middle of the room. The boy had neither a duvet nor bedding, according to the prosecution.
There was only one toy in the room.
In one of the videos, a long rope can be seen which is said to have been used to keep his door closed.
The police warn: – Don’t do it
Hits the hood
In another body camera video, Stephanie Jones is seen sitting on the steps outside the house. She cries and smokes.
The house is surrounded by police cars and an ambulance.
While the paramedics try to revive the boy, Brandon Walker is told that it is not certain that the resuscitation efforts will work.
Then he slams his hand into a car bonnet and shouts:
– No way!
Never seen anything like it
Refused to give him back
The child welfare services in the city had been in contact with Jones and Walker for a number of years, according to the local newspaper Peoria Journal Star.
Navin Jones tested positive for opiates shortly after he was born, and he was therefore taken into care by child protection.
When he was five months old, his grandmother, Laura Walker, was granted custody of both him and his brother.
In July 2021, Laura Walker had to go to Florida due to an incident in the family, and she therefore left the boys with their parents.
When she came back to get them, his parents allegedly refused her to get them back.
In court, she said that she notified both child welfare in Illinois and the police in both Washington and Peoria about this, but that she did not receive a response from anyone.
Judged according to this: – Completely morbid
Thought he was safe
In February 2022, child protection received an anonymous tip that prompted them to go on a welfare check at Jones and Walker’s home.
Navin Jones is said to have been what child protection described as “morbidly thin”, but that he ate popcorn and drank juice.
In court, an employee said she discussed the boy’s weight with Brandon Walker, according to the local channel WCBU.
Walker said he wanted to take the boy to the doctor but couldn’t because they didn’t have custody of him.
Laura Walker eventually agreed to hand over custody to his parents again – but by then it was already too late.
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Chronic malnutrition
In court, the coroner who performed the boy’s autopsy, Amanda Youmans, said that he had lost all subcutaneous fat and had typical signs of chronic malnutrition.
She believes that the boy must have had limited mobility before he died, as he had muscle wasting.
The many bruises on his body were consistent with the fact that he had been subjected to violence.
Amanda Youmans has concluded that the boy died of heart failure as a result of malnutrition.
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Blame it on child protection
Brandon Walker’s lawyer, Garys Morris, believes that it is all the child welfare agency’s fault.
According to him, the parents did not have the opportunity to take the eight-year-old with them to a doctor or hospital because they did not have custody of him.
– Child welfare services must take more responsibility for moving custody rights from one person to another. Everyone agreed that the parents could not take the child to the doctor, and that is a fact, he says to the local channel WMBD News.
Sound the alarm: – Lots of blood
Long out
Brandon Walker’s trial continues next week.
Peoria County State’s Attorney Jodi Hoo calls the actions of Navin Jones’ parents “brutal and cruel.”
– He was tortured, beaten, starved and imprisoned – all this by the two who were supposed to protect him. In the last few weeks they did nothing for him. I plan to spend my next few weeks giving the boy justice, she says.
2023-12-16 19:58:18
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