Chrystal Jackson Dallas

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The aunt of an 18-month-old boy who was found dead in a Dallas garbage dump has been detained in connection with the boy's death and accused of endangering a child.

Chrystal Jackson, 27, was arrested Thursday around 7:30 a.m. and booked into a Dallas County jail, as confirmed by DFW-CBS2. Incredibly, recently the Child Protection Service (CPS) had granted custody of the minor to the currently detained.

The body of the boy Cedrick "CJ" Jackson was found dead on July 11 in a garbage dump located in Garland and Rowlett. Sedrick Deshun Johnson, the boy's father, was later detained after serious injuries were discovered on the boy's body.

At the time of his arrest, the boy's father told police that the boy had died because he had been wrapped very tightly with a blanket located at the foot of the couple's bed, according to police reports obtained by the WFAA chain.

Johnson said he started tying up the boy after he "made a mess" with some packages of tomato sauce. The man said he did not want the boy to get up during the night, according to his arrest warrant.

When they questioned the boy's aunt, the boy told police that he had put the boy to sleep around 11:00 pm the night before he disappeared and that when he woke up the next morning the little CJ had disappeared. Investigations began to focus on the woman when the boy's relatives explained to detectives that she slept in the same bed as the boy, next to him.

Jackson later changed her story saying that the night of the disappearance she woke up but her boyfriend and the boy were not there. She explained that she then called Johnson to confront him and ask him about the boy's whereabouts.

Chrystal Jackson is now behind bars on $ 35,000 bail. The reason why the woman obtained custody of the child is unknown so far.