East Orange, NJ mom accused of stabbing teen, years of abuse – New Jersey 101.5 FM
EAST ORANGE — Harrowing abuse accusations involving the 14-year-old who disappeared for roughly a month before her mother was charged with with child endangerment last week have been detailed in a criminal complaint.
According to the complaint against Jamie Moore, obtained by ABC 7 Eyewitness News, the 40-year-old mother had previously stabbed her teen daughter with a steak knife.
Moore is also accused of spraying Jashyah Moore in the face with bleach, pulling out her braids and hitting her in the head with a frying pan, on separate occasions.
Prosecutors have said that Jamie Moore forced the teen to log out of online school during the 2020-21 school year and failed to enroll her daughter in school during the 2021-22 school year, after moving to another community.
Jashyah Moore walked into an NYPD precinct in Harlem last week, after a media blitz about her “vanishing” in broad daylight in mid-October. She was not immediately reunited with her family.
The following day, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens said at a press conference that Jashyah Moore was “an extremely resilient and resourceful young lady and she decided she wanted to be someplace other than where she had been and she made it happen.”
Jamie Moore was arrested Friday, on two charges of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child.
Tipping point
The girl came home with groceries on Oct. 14, the day she went missing, but had lost her mother’s Electronic Benefit Transfer card, according the complaint.
Jamie Moore told the teen “not to come home” if she couldn’t find it, the complaint said.
The complaint also said that she had previously forced her daughter to panhandle for money, giving a monetary “goal” to collect before she could come home.
Jashyah had suffered bruising and scarring amid years of physical abuse,
as reported by NBC New York, citing the same complaint, and often found her forced to care for her 3-year-old brother.
Both children have been removed from the home by the state Department of Child Protection and Permanency.
A detention hearing for Jamie Moore has been slated for Wednesday.
Contact reporter Dan Alexander at Dan.Alexander@townsquaremedia.com or via Twitter @DanAlexanderNJ
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