Banita Jacks

Banita Jacks

Banita Jacks is being charged with murder. The decomposing bodies of her girls,ages 5 to 17, were found in her apartment. A teacher reported concerns about the family to child services, claiming: "It appears the mother is suffering... [more]

Banita Jacks is being charged with murder. The decomposing bodies of her girls,ages 5 to 17, were found in her apartment.

A teacher reported concerns about the family to child services, claiming: "It appears the mother is suffering from some mental illness and is holding all the children hostage"

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Mother sentenced to 120 years for deaths

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A District of Columbia woman who kept the decomposing bodies of her four daughters in her home has been sentenced to 120 years in prison, officials said. Banita Jacks, 34, was sentenced Friday to four consecutive 30-year prison terms for murdering her daughters, ages 5 to 16, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Jacks, a recluse, had kept the bodies for at least seven months in her filthy home in southeast Washington. The evidence photos of the dead girls Superior Court Judge Frederick Weisberg said in court. Authorities delivering evictions papers found the remains of the girls Jan. 9, 2008. ... Read Full Story

DC mom who lived with girls' corpses due in court

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A D.C. woman convicted of killing her four daughters and living with their decomposing bodies for months is returning to court for a hearing on her refusal to use an insanity defense. Banita Jacks was found guilty in July of four murders. She faces life in prison and had been scheduled to be sentenced Friday. But defense lawyers are still questioning Jacks' refusal to use an insanity defense. They are asking the judge to appoint an independent counsel to investigate. Prosecutors oppose the request, and a U.S. attorney's office spokesman says the judge is expected to hear arguments on the issue Friday. It's unclear ... Read Full Story

DC woman to be sentenced for killing 4 daughters

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A D.C. woman convicted of killing her four daughters and living with their decomposing bodies for months returns to court Friday to be sentenced. Banita Jacks was found guilty in July of the four murders. She faces life in prison. But defense lawyers are still raising questions about Jacks' refusal to use an insanity defense. They're asking Judge Frederick H. Weisberg to appoint an independent counsel to investigate whether Jacks should have used it. U.S. Marshals discovered the bodies of Jacks' daughters — ages 5 to 17 — in January 2008 when they came to evict her. The case prompted the city to review ... Read Full Story

Witness: DC mother let kids, 3 and 4, smoke pot

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A witness in the trial of a woman accused of killing her four daughters says the parents allowed two of the girls to smoke marijuana at the ages of 3 and 4. LaShawn Ragland, a friend of Banita Jacks' boyfriend, testified in Jacks' murder trial on Monday. Ragland told prosecutors that she once observed Jacks and boyfriend Nathaniel Fogle Jr. laughing as the two youngest girls, N'Kiah and Aja, smoked marijuana. Fogle, who died in 2007, was their father. U.S. Marshals discovered the four girls' decomposing bodies in January 2008 while serving an eviction in Jacks' southeast D.C. home. Jacks has pleaded not guilty ... Read Full Story

Banita Jacks -- Trial of mother accused of killing four children underway

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Banita Jacks. Banita Jacks is being charged with murder. The decomposing bodies of her girls, ages 5 to 17, were found in her apartment. In court today, a DC medical examiner said some of the bodies were so decomposed, it was difficult to tell if they were murdered. From an article at the Washington Post : A District medical examiner told a D.C. Superior Court judge Monday that Banita Jacks's oldest daughter's body was so badly decomposed that he was only about "50 percent" sure that she had been murdered. In the fourth day of Jacks's trial, Assistant Medical Examiner A. Wayne Williams said ... Read Full Story
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Banita Jacks Sentenced to 120 Years
Associated Press Banita Jacks, the D.C. woman who was convicted of murdering her four daughters in one of the most gruesome cases in this city's history, has been sentenced to 120 years in prison, the Washington Post is reporting.In sentencing her yesterday, [D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick] Weisberg, who has been in the bench for more than 30 years, said the case occupied his mind in the past two years like no other in his career...  
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Banita Jacks returns to court for hearing
A woman who was convicted of killing her four daughters is expected back in a D.C. courtroom Friday for a hearing on her refusal to use an insanity defense.  
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120-year sentence for murder of four daughters
Banita Jacks, convicted of murdering her four young daughters, was sentenced Friday to 120 years in prison by a judge who said evidence photos of the dead girls in Jacks' squalid home, where she kept their decomposing bodies for months, "will probably haunt me for the rest of my life."  
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D.C. mother gets 120 years in girls’ deaths
WASHINGTON - Even as Banita Jacks was sentenced to 120 years in prison yesterday for killing four daughters whose bodies were found decomposing in her rowhouse, the girls’ lives remained mostly a mystery.  
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