Mother charged with abusing 14-year-old daughter with extension cord when she couldn’t locate a belt

Jessica Golay (MCSO)

Multiple witnesses say 33-year-old Jessica Golay assaulted her 14-year-old child multiple times with an extension cord, leaving marks on her face and arm. When she was unable to wake her boyfriend, Ernest Mays, for his belt, she said “F–k it, I have an extension cord”, per an arrest warrant charging her with child abuse.

Mother charged with biting child during an argument over going to bed

25-year-old Mystery Somnus is charged with aggravated felony child abuse and neglect after she left teeth marks and a bruise on her young daughter’s arm during an argument over going to bed. She initially claimed a dog bit her daughter, before admitting she did it.

Home Health Nurse Lori Johnson charged with Child Abuse & Neglect

CLARKSVILLE, TN – Police have charged 62-year-old home health nurse Loi Johnson with child abuse and neglect. Police were called to a Clarksville residence, June 4, after the foster parents of a six-year-old with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), noticed the child seemed to be crying more lately. The child sustained the TBI during a motor vehicle crash when she was two years old and is non-ambulatory and non-verbal. The foster parents reviewed in-home video surveillance footage and saw what they perceived as the home health care nurse, Lori Johnson,…

2-month-old baby found with Cocaine in system; Portia Marcum charged

Clarksville Police have charged 26-year-old Portia Marcum with child abuse/neglect, after a two month old child in her care was found to have cocaine in his system. Police were investigating an allegation that a two month old child had been potentially exposed to drugs. During the course of the investigation, it determined was that the two month had cocaine in his system. Also, that the caretaker, Portia Marcum, had been staying at a residence in which drugs were present and being used as well as Marcum herself being involved in…