CHANDLER, Okla. (KFOR) – An 18 12 months previous who was allegedly compelled to stay in a barn in Meeker again in 2018 when he was 15, took the stand because the trial continues for his father, Jimmy Jones Sr., who’s accused of kid neglect in Lincoln County.
Day three of the trial is a really important one. The 18 12 months previous testified, however there was additionally an enormous flip of occasions for the protection.
The day began with the physician that cared for the boy for weeks after he was taken out of the barn. He testified concerning the boy having just lately damaged bones in his palms, ribs and foot. The physician stated they gave him solely meals, no different medicines and that he gained 16 kilos and grew 1.2 inches within the 39 days he was at OU Youngsters’s Hospital.
The 18 12 months previous then elected to take the stand. He informed jurors he was “dwelling in filth” as he described the deplorable situations within the barn the place he was allegedly compelled to stay when he was an adolescent.
He talked of no operating water or working bathrooms, and animal feces all over the place. He additionally described being overwhelmed over the pinnacle by his father with a cattle pole, then being handcuffed to a trailer exterior. That’s when he stated maggots acquired into the open wounds, which his father then allegedly closed with superglue.
He by no means acquired medical assist after that or when he says his dad shot him within the leg with a shotgun.
The 18 12 months previous additionally stated he by no means noticed a health care provider after his father knocked out a tooth after one other beating. The boy says he was allowed one chilly bathe per week. He stated he was solely allowed to eat leftovers that have been about to spoil, solely sporadically inside the primary home late at evening, after the remainder of the household had already eaten.
Earlier than the protection cross examined the son, the lawyer for the protection informed the decide that he and his consumer had been arguing and that Jimmy Jones Sr. needed to dismiss him. The decide wouldn’t enable it. The protection went ahead with the trial, cross-examining the son. They questioned the boy as to which member of the family did the precise beating and requested him if he had ever requested his father to go to the hospital for the accidents, to which the boy stated no.
After the prosecution rested, Jimmy Jones Sr. elected to take the stand. His lawyer confirming, with the daddy, documented circumstances of habits points and weight reduction points by the son. Jones Sr. stated the boy set fires, killed small animals and defecated in inappropriate locations round their property when he first arrived to stay with them in 2013.
Jones went on to say his son was compelled to sleep within the barn for the protection of the remainder of the household and that had he recognized concerning the sanitation situation – which he says have been solely current the final three weeks the boy was within the barn – he would have carried out one thing about it.
The trial is about to proceed tomorrow in Lincoln County Courtroom.
