An
evil father is being made to face the full wrath of the law after he
was found out to have severely abused and killed his own son.
Adrian Jones
Michael Jones, a father has been jailed for life after he killed
his seven-year-old son who he abused and starved before feeding him to
the pigs.
According to
Metro UK, Michael Jones, 46, was told he must serve at least 25 years after he pleaded guilty to the murder of Adrian Jones in 2015.
The court heard that Jones kept alarms on food and he forced him to stand in the shallow end of a filthy pool for hours.
The wicked father, Michael Jones
Meanwhile, Jones was recording the abuse on 30 CCTV cameras around the property where they lived.
Michael Jones turned his chair away from Adrian’s grandmother,
mother and old sister, never making eye contact as they addressed the
judge. They excoriated him during the sentencing hearing for a slaying
authorities described as horrific, even haunting.
His father blindfolded and strapped him to an inversion table
‘You do not deserve a second chance,’ Keiona Doctor, the late boy’s 21-year-old sister, told Michael Jones, who declined the judge’s offer to make a statement. ‘You do not deserve sunlight as a free man.’
The judge ordered Jones to spend the rest of his life on parole if
he is ever released from prison. His attorney did not object in court
Monday to the life sentence prosecutors sought.
The boy’s stepmother, 31-year-old Heather Jones, pleaded guilty to the same charge in November and is serving a life sentence.
He was forced to stand upright with kitchen cutting boards tied to his front and back
She insisted that she felt helpless to protect Adrian and herself
from her abusive husband, but investigators said she also abused the
boy, drawing an additional five years and eight months in prison for
that.
Adrian died in September or October 2015, but his death wasn’t reported to authorities.
His remains were found that November on the family’s Kansas City,
Kansas, rental property after officers learned the boy was missing while
they were responding to a report that Michael Jones had attacked his
wife at their home.
When the charges were filed, Wyandotte County’s district attorney
at the time, Jerry Gorman, said it was one the worst cases investigators
had seen.
During Monday’s hearing, a police investigator – Detective Stuart
Littlefield – confirmed publicly for the first time that ‘what was left
of (Adrian’s body) was fed to his pigs.’
Adrian was forced to wade in a dirty pool at night in the cold
Often choking back tears, Littlefield asked for a 20-second moment
of silence, reflecting the length of time Adrian at one point was
shocked by a stun gun during his ‘tortured young life.’
Adrian’s biological mother, Dainna Pearce, lost custody of him and two of his siblings years ago.
Her mother, Judy Conway, said last week that she finally brought
herself to look at videos and digital photos from the Jones’ home that
showed the abuse Adrian suffered in his life’s waning months, much of it
chronicled by more than 30 security cameras set up throughout the home.
Conway said the Joneses kept Adrian naked in a shower stall and modified it so that he couldn’t get out.
She said they sometimes strapped her grandson to an inversion table
and that they made him stand in a swimming pool overnight, up to his
neck in stagnant water.
Laceration and bleeding after he was hit
Conway said the videos and photos show that Heather Jones sometimes
beat Adrian with the end of a broom handle and kept alarms on the
family’s food so that he couldn’t take any when he was hungry.
‘There’s no getting over it. There’s no fix, there’s no
solution to our heartache. There is no glue for our broken hearts, no
remedy for our pain,’ Conway told Michael Jones in court Monday.
‘I pray you have a long, tortured life in prison,’ added Pearce, Adrian’s mother. ‘I don’t know if I can forgive you, but I know you should suffer for what you did.’
The Kansas Department for Children and Families’ chief, Phyllis
Gilmore, said in a statement Friday that the agency ‘thoroughly
investigated’ each reported incident of alleged abuse or neglect
involving Adrian, though she did not divulge the number of cases or
their context.
Gilmore added that although the family’s frequently alternating residency between Kansas and Missouri ‘greatly disrupted continuity of services and evaluation,’ Kansas child-welfare officials often shared information about Adrian ‘when known’ with their Missouri counterparts.
Gilmore said her agency last had contact with the family in early 2012.
The department’s records involving Adrian remain under
court-ordered seal, though Gilmore said they will be released if a
pending open-records request is granted.
