North TX mom who pleaded guilty to child injury charges arrested for 2nd time this year
A North Texas mom who pleaded guilty in January to poisoning her child with Benadryl to fake a seizure disorder was arrested Wednesday on bond violation charges, according to a Tarrant County arrest warrant. This marks the second time this year she’s been arrested for allegedly violating the conditions of her bond.
Since July 2022, Jesika Lynn Jones, 32, of Krum, was ordered by a Tarrant County judge — as part of her bond — to refrain from having contact with any child under the age of 17. She was first arrested on July 13, 2022, on a charge of injury to a child causing bodily injury.
In 2022, Jones admitted to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office that she gave her 4-year-old daughter Benadryl “more times than I should have” and took her to Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, claiming she had a seizure disorder, according to an arrest warrant.
In September 2022, she faced additional charges of injury to a child and endangerment to a child. That warrant says she poisoned her children with medications like Clonidine and Benadryl to induce seizures and make it appear as if the children were epileptic.
An ex-partner who used to live with Jones told authorities her behavior was indicative of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a condition in which a caretaker — often a mother — fakes symptoms in someone else — usually a child.
According to the latest warrant, authorities said Jones made contact multiple times with the daughter of a man who she had recently been in a romantic relationship with.
Alleged violations of her bond conditions
In an interview on Wednesday, a man told the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office that he met Jones several weeks ago on a dating site and met her in person at a community pool on July 11 in Krum. It was there where Jones came into contact with the man’s daughter and she formed an “immediate attachment” to the child, the warrant says.
Jones was alone with the child for at least five minutes when the man left the two unattended, according to the warrant. In the interview, the man said he was unaware of Jones’ criminal charges and she had never discussed the matter with him.
Jones also accompanied the man to his daughter’s doctor appointment Monday, where the child was getting her tonsils out. Jones had been with the girl inside his home, as well, the warrant says. She told the man that she worked as a trauma nurse at John Peter Smith Hospital, according to the warrant.
She had lied multiple times before about being a nurse, according to a Tarrant County sheriff’s detective. In other instances, Jones previously wrote on Facebook stating she was a nurse. She also used the social media website to say she was a mother of multiple children with epilepsy, according to court documents.
After the child had her tonsils taken out, the man’s mother observed Jones giving the girl liquid medication, according to the warrant. Jones asked the man’s mother if she could take the child with her on a trip to Florida in August, even if the girl’s father could not go, the warrant says.
Jones also lied to her most recent partner about her two children, saying they had epilepsy and that they were with their father for the summer, according to the warrant. She said she had primary custody of the children and would get her children back in August, the warrant states.
She has not had custody of her children since her arrest in 2022, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Jones has been out on bond since March 2024, when she was first arrested on a charge of violating the conditions of her bond.
The March arrest warrant states that Jones lied to another man she dated in 2022 to 2023, also telling him that her children had epilepsy. Additionally, the man was unaware of her arrest and criminal history. When he did confront Jones about the injury to a child charge, she “minimized the events” of her arrest, the warrant reads.
In one instance, Jones acted “strangely” and told the man she had to leave and return to Fort Worth when he brought his three children home with him to meet her, according to the warrant. She was with his three boys for at least five to 15 minutes before she left his home, the documents state.
This was not the only time she was alone with them, according to the warrant. When the man took one of his sons to a dentist appointment, Jones medicated another one of the children, the warrant says.
Jones told the same lies about being a nurse to the man’s ex-wife — the mother of his children — and another woman he had a child with, the warrant says. The man did not learn about Jones’ criminal history until the Tarrant County sheriff’s detective informed him in March 2023.
“Ms. Jones has been allowed to remain on bond pending a sentencing hearing even though she continually violates bond conditions without a bond revocation hearing being sought,” Detective Michael Weber wrote in the warrant issued Wednesday.
Tarrant County court records show Jones will be sentenced on Aug. 9. The hearing has been postponed twice this year.
“Ms Jones will be a continued threat to the children of the Dallas/Fort Worth area if again allowed to bond out after pleading guilty to injury to a child - serious bodily injury,” Weber wrote in the warrant.
Court records showed Jones was in custody at the Denton County Jail on Friday.
