10/02/2026
🚨42-year-old Chloe Jackson-Jones from Georgia adopted an 8-year-old boy in May 2019.
In 2020, she started abusing him. She isolated the boy by pulling him out of public school for virtual learning before claiming to homeschool him.
Over the next few years, she starved him and made him hold painful positions for hours while he was naked. She stomped on his ge****ls, put him in ice baths, tied his hands and ankles to chairs, and locked him in closets. She also choked him until he passed out. She took photos and videos of much of this on her phone.
On July 5, 2023, the boy, then 11, was locked in a bedroom closet. He tore through the wall with his hands, climbed out, and jumped from a second-story window to escape.
A neighbor saw him walking down the street and called 911.
When the neighbor found out he was starving, they offered to buy him food. He weighed only 61 pounds. Newnan police collected the photos and videos from Jackson-Jones's phone, which showed years of severe torture.
She pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Sept 30, to aggravated assault by strangulation, two counts of false imprisonment, and 17 counts of first-degree cruelty to children.
The judge sentenced her to 40 years in prison, followed by 20 years of probation, which matched the plea deal prosecutors had worked out.
Prosecutors said they pushed for the longest sentence the deal allowed. A regular life sentence would have let her seek parole after 30 years, which could have meant fewer guaranteed years in prison.
The plea agreement also spared the child from having to testify at trial.
He is now 14 and lives in a stable home with a new adoptive family.
He is getting straight A's in school, and he gave a powerful victim-impact statement at the sentencing hearing.