A 6-year-old boy finally collapsed and died after his father beat him repeatedly for hours because he couldn’t or wouldn’t sleep by the 7 p.m. curfew time. Even the father’s girlfriend witnessed and contributed to the slaughter.
This is how Alex Duncan, the father who is currently in custody for murder, executed his form of “discipline” on the young boy:
Duncan forced his 6-year-old son to kneel with his arms raised for 8 hours, “chest boxing” him repeatedly whenever he slipped, until the boy had a seizure and died, the Houston police state. Tekerrious “TK” Jackson’s death was witnessed by the father’s girlfriend, who stopped the beating only long enough to show Duncan how to “whoop” the child properly. This was the culmination of two weeks of abuse while TK was visiting his father for the summer, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Duncan actually told police that he caught his son not sleeping when he ordered the boy to bed at 7 p.m. This, the paper said, set off “a flood of violence aimed at getting TK to ‘man up’ that ended only when the boy died.”
“The saddest thing is, that because of the unconditional love he had for his father, the child would often tell him, ‘I love you daddy,’ ” one cop told the Chronicle.
–terry shropshire
