A mother in Florida is accused of terrorizing her son and a 65-year-old man who took the pair into his home to let them live with various forms of torture and abuse, like making her child “sit in a squatted position for hours on end” and striking the man with random objects, including a knife and “sharpening tool” on one occasion, cops say.

“She is f—ing strong,” the man allegedly told investigators after being questioned about the abuse, according to Miami ABC affiliate WPLG.

Jasmine Jean-Baptiste, 31, is accused of beating and pummeling the sexagenarian so badly that police say he is now blind in one eye. She allegedly “exploit(ed) his compassion and concern for her children,” according to the Miami Shores Police Department, and tortured her son behind closed doors in the process.

“A witness reported observing a significant and consistent pattern of abuse, including multiple instances of battery on various occasions,” the police report states, per WPLG. “The victim further provided photographs from various incidents, which depicted bruising, contusions and facial lacerations consistent with his account of abuse.”

One of the seven people accused of torturing and killing a missing man in New York for months — simply because “they enjoyed it,” according to prosecutors — is also facing coercion charges for allegedly forcing two children, ages 7 and 12, to take part in hurting and treating the victim “like a dog,” officials say.

“To have two children have to participate in the beating of another human being, it’s deeply disturbing,” Ontario County Assistant District Attorney Kelly Wolford said at a press conference Wednesday. “It has, I can speak for myself and everyone involved in this investigation, been one of the most troubling parts of this. It’s heartbreaking.”

According to prosecutors and police, Minnesota resident Sam Nordquist was lured by his online girlfriend Precious Arzuaga to the Empire State in September and taken captive at a hotel in Ontario County by Arzuaga and six others in December. The group physically and sexually assaulted Nordquist; prevented him from eating food and hyrdrating; forced him to eat feces and drink urine; and other grotesque forms of torture, according to prosecutors.

“They forced him to obey their commands, treating him like a dog,” Wolford said Wednesday. “We have a seven-year-old and a 12-year-old who are also victims. They may have been forced to participate, but their lives are forever changed by what they saw and endured there.”

An Ohio judge sentenced a father to prison for spending nearly two decades abusing and torturing his seven children, including forcing his then 14-year-old son to eat dog food and sleep in a shed.

Jason Fuller, 44, pleaded guilty to seven counts of endangering children, the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release. Delaware County Common Pleas Judge James P. Schuck sentenced Fuller to 17.5 years in prison on Monday.

“Jason Fuller’s sentence is almost one year in prison for every year he terrorized his family. We are extremely thankful these victims will be protected from him while he serves his prison sentence,” Delaware County Prosecuting Attorney Melissa Schiffel said in a statement.

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Fuller’s wife, Kristelle Fuller, was sentenced to two years probation after she pleaded guilty to obstructing justice for telling her kids to lie to investigators to protect their father.

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Columbus Fox affiliate WTTE, the investigation began in September 2023 when the county’s Family Services received a complaint about child abuse after someone overheard one of the sons say he was locked in a shed and fed dog food when he was 14. Officers from the Delaware Police Department went to the home and interviewed Kristelle Fuller and the son in question. The son at first denied making the comment but then said he remembered an incident that happened about six years prior in which he was “punished for doing something inappropriate in front of his sister and was grounded to the shed for a couple of nights.”

The victim said the unattached shed was in the backyard and it occurred around August. He said he was allowed back in the house in the daytime. Investigators then spoke with the victim without his mother present. An investigator asked him if there was any audio or surveillance video within the home and he said he had a device “right now that he was supposed to be recording me with,” the affidavit said. The victim said he was not recording at the time and the investigator told him he was free to do so as the officer also was filming with his body-worn camera, the affidavit said.

Detectives asked Kristelle Fuller if she remembered the incident and she said “Sure.” She then said she was instructed by her attorney not to speak with them.

A mother and father in Minnesota are headed to prison for the next four years for locking their kids in makeshift cages at night, insisting to cops that they did so for “safety” reasons.

Benjamin Cotton 42, and Christina Cotton, 40, pleaded guilty to child torture, court records show. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors dismissed the 15 other charges they were facing including torture, neglect and malicious punishment of a child, reported Twin Cities ABC affiliate KSTP. According to a probable cause statement, the Goodhue County Health and Human Services received a report in August 2022 concerning the well-being of four children, ages 9, 7, 5 and 2. Christina Cotton had been behaving erratically and had a history of mental illness, cops said. The report also said at least one of the children had been locked in a cage, the affidavit said.

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A social worker and investigator from the Red Wing Police Department went to the home the day after receiving the report. Christina Cotton answered the door and invited them inside. She said the three younger children were in their bedrooms while the older child was downstairs. When cops asked if any of the children were locked in cages, Christina Cotton became upset and told them the kids were “locked up for their safety,” the affidavit said.

Investigators went to a bedroom and saw a 2-year-old locked in a playpen with what appeared to be a dog cage strapped on top so the child could not get out. The child wore a soiled diaper which was duct taped around his body, police said. Next to the playpen was a bunk bed “designed for very small children” that had wooded planks around the exterior that kept the kids locked up. The 7- and 5-year-old were inside, along with a mattress, blankets and a “puke bowl,” according to cops. They could not stand up, police noted. There was also a wooden door that had a sliding metal lock.

The mother said she locked up the kids around 8:30 p.m. the night before, meaning they had been contained in the cages for about 13 hours. The 9-year-old was found downstairs and not locked up. But the child had “excessive bruising” that covered the back and buttocks, police said.

A couple in California is accused of abusing, torturing and murdering their adopted son, with the 10-year-old being rushed to a hospital “in medical distress” before dying several hours later, according to cops.

Alejandra Marin, 51, and Juan Sanchez Moreno, 59, have been arrested on felony murder and torture charges, including one count of willfully causing or permitting harm to a child, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. The couple was booked on Friday, Nov. 22, following an investigation by the department’s Central Homicide Unit and Special Victims Unit.

On Nov. 21, deputies responded to a call of a 10-year-old boy “in medical distress” at a home in the 13000 block of Malibu Court, Moreno Valley, per an RCSO press release. Authorities found the child and rushed him to a local hospital, where he was stabilized.

A man hit a woman over 100 times, shot her in the stomach, bound her with zip ties, gagged her and taped a plastic bag around her head before covering her body with a sleeping bag. He then put the body it the car and crashed into a pole.

Cops in Alaska made the grisly discovery in 2016 and charged Benjamin Wilkins with murder. On Wednesday, a judge sentenced Wilkins, now 43, to 75 years behind bars.

Anchorage police on June 27, 2016, responded to the traffic crash in the 2800 block of Debarr Road near Alaska Regional Hospital. Cops quickly realized Wilkins was impaired. As they were waiting for the tow truck, they saw what appeared to be a passenger under a sleeping bag and found the body of 30-year-old Jacqueline Goodwin. She had plier marks and bruises throughout her body and her teeth were broken, the Juneau Empire reported at the time. The medical examiner determined the cause of death was from asphyxiation, blunt force trauma and gunshot wound to her stomach, the outlet reported.

A 28-year-old woman in Pennsylvania was arrested this week for allegedly posting a series of videos to her social media channel in which she slowly and sadistically tortured animals such as chickens, rabbits, frogs, and birds. Anigar Monsee was taken into custody on Friday and charged with four counts of aggravated animal cruelty, court records obtained by Law&Crime show.

According to a probable cause affidavit, authorities were tipped off about videos that had been posted to YouTube by PETA headquarters documenting a “scantily-clad woman torturing rabbits, chickens, frogs, and pigeons by slowly disemboweling and otherwise mutilating the animals while still alive.” The document states that Monsee was also “severing the struggling and screaming animals’ necks with a dull knife over the course of several minutes.”

One video, titled “Cooking Lucky,” allegedly posted to Monsee’s account showed her alongside a live chicken that was in her sink. Before harming the animal, Monsee allegedly commented about the number of viewers and likes that her livestreaming video was getting and “solicited more before she harmed the animal.”

“For roughly the next 10 minutes, the actor aggressively handled the clearly terrified animal, plucked feathers from the bird’s neck, and hacked repeatedly at the struggling bird’s throat with knives while the animal attempted to escape,” the affidavit states. “The actor then climbed on the counter, pinned the bird down in the sink with her feet, before sawing at the bird’s neck in a slow back and forth motion. She continued carving at the bird’s neck for more than two minutes, until the screen went black.”

A 41-year-old woman in Michigan is facing a possible life sentence for allegedly torturing her boyfriend’s elderly mother while he was on vacation with his children, tying the 80-year-old woman to the bed and “severely” beating her until she was eventually found unresponsive in a pool of her own waste.

Judge Kimberly Wiegand on Wednesday ordered Laura Catherine Tisdelle to be bound over to Macomb County Circuit Court to stand trial on one count each of torture, first-degree abuse of a vulnerable adult, unlawful imprisonment, and third-degree domestic violence, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Under Michigan state law, a person convicted of torture faces a maximum sentence of life in a state correctional facility. On the remaining charges, Tisdelle faces an additional 35 years behind bars.

According to a press release from the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office, Tisdelle’s boyfriend on June 21, 2023, returned home from a five-day trip with his kids and discovered his mother “with her hands tied together, restrained to the bed, severely beaten and laying in her own urine and feces.”

The Macomb Daily reported that Tisdelle used yellow twine to bind the elderly woman’s hands to her bed.

“The defendant’s boyfriend left his mother in her care and when he came home from his trip, the defendant was intoxicated and he found his mother non-responsive,” Wiegand said, per The Macomb Daily.

The victim was rushed to a hospital where she was admitted and placed into the intensive care unit in critical condition, prosecutors said. During the boyfriend’s trip, authorities claim that Tisdelle was the only person charged with caring for his mother.