This is the home where Jamie K. Ahmad and Robert Mason Davis physically abused Ahmad’s 10-year-old son. (Screenshot: KOTV)
A mother allegedly downplayed tasering her 10-year-old son by telling a state worker that it was not illegal to use the device on the boy.
Jamie K. Ahmad, 38, and her live-in boyfriend, Robert Mason Davis, 36, are both charged with two counts of child abuse in claims that they repeatedly abused the boy with a taser, a belt, and then after the belt broke, a tree branch.
Police in Midwest City, Oklahoma, said that the abuse landed on their radar after an officer responded to a local elementary school regarding ” a possible assault and battery between students,” according to documents viewed by Law&Crime. Once there, one of the students involved, a 10-year-old, asked to speak with him. Crying hysterically, he begged the officer not to send him home to his mother, Jamie Ahmad, police said.
According to documents, he said his mother used a taser on him and beat him. The school said they already made a referral to the state Department of Human Services. The boy’s stepsisters no longer lived with the family, now staying with their biological father, authorities said.
Investigators determined that Ahmad and Davis repeatedly physically abused the child by hurting him after he did not complete time limits to do his school work or put away his clothing.
When asked what he meant by not doing his work correctly, the boy said “he was given a 5 minute time limit and if he wasn’t done with his work when the time went off he would get hit with the branch,” documents stated.
A DHS staffer spoke to Ahmad, who admitted using the taser on her son for punishment, police said. The staffer told her not to.
“In the more recent report, Jamie told the DHS worker that there wasn’t a law against her using the taser on [her son],” documents said.
Investigators found that the taser burned his skin, leaving marks.
The boy said he “had been tased more times than he could count,” according to documents.
Authorities gave a similar estimate of his scars and marks, describing them as “too numerous to count” and that these were consistent with the boy’s story.
A report from a clinic determined that the boy was “at a high risk of further injury or death if returned to the hands of the caregiver who inflicted these injuries,” documents said.
When police performed a search warrant at her home on Nov. 15, Ahmad allegedly claimed that she got rid of the taser after the DHS incident in the summer, and she gave it to a woman she walks with at the park. But when police found the taser hidden between the mattress and box spring of the couple’s bed, she claimed she forgot the woman returned it the day before, documents said.
Authorities filed the child abuse case on Tuesday, records show. Ahmad and Davis face arrest warrants under a $50,000 bond each.
Midwest City Interim Chief of Police Greg Wipfli told Law&Crime on Sunday that the couple have moved out of their residence, and as far as he knows, they have yet to be arrested. DHS took the child into protective custody, he said.
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