Who is Jesika Jones? Dallas mother poisons daughter, 4, with Benadryl to fake seizure disorder

Who is Jesika Jones? Dallas mother poisons daughter, 4, with Benadryl to fake seizure disorder
Jesika Jones (pictured) has admitted to overdosing her 4-year-old daughter with Benadryl to fake seizure disorder (Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office)

TARANT, DALLAS: A 30-year-old mother from Dallas is accused of poisoning her 4-year-old daughter with Benadryl overdoses to fake a seizure disorder. The woman was arrested Wednesday, July 13, according to a warrant from the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office. Jesika Jones took her child to Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth multiple times claiming the child had seizures, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. The warrant states that when a Tarrant County sheriff’s detective interviewed Jones, she said she was “a habitual liar” and had given the child Benadryl “more times than I should have.”

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Jesika Jones was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with one count each of abandoning or endangering a child and injury to a child with the intent to cause serious bodily injury. On June 19, Jones took her 4-year-old to Cook Children’s hospital and said she had been having seizures, according to the arrest warrant. She had taken her child to the ER multiple times before and the child had been admitted to the hospital three other times, the warrant said.