TUSHAMBI EVANS Jr - 2 yo - Stockton CA

STOCKTON, CA - A 2-year-old boy is on life support after he was severely beaten by his own father, according to Stockton police.

The boy's mother said she had been warning law enforcement and the
court system for months that she and her son were being abused.

Friday night, Oakland police notified the Stockton Police Department
that a child arrived at Oakland Children's Hospital with life
threatening injuries and the father's story was suspicious.

Stockton police arrested the boy's father, Tushambi Evans, 28, and
charged him with felony child abuse. Evans was arrested at a home on the
500 block of 6th Street where his wife said she and her son endured
months of physical abuse.

"The baby would sit right here, he'd feed him, but the baby would
throw it up and he's pick up the throw up and make the baby eat
it," mother Jamela Evans said.

Jamela Evans said she's known her husband since the sixth grade, but
the abuse started after their son, Tushambi Evans Jr, was born. Jamela
Evans said she left her husband last May, but through legal actions, he
ended up with full custody of their son.

Jamela Evans said she ran off with her son once, but was arrested for felony child kidnapping.

She moved from their home in Vallejo to Stockton, but invited
Tushambi Evans and their son to come back and live with her. She said
the abuse started to escalate in recent weeks.

"He was slapping the baby, hitting the baby on the back, dropping the
baby on his head, throwing him against the wall like he was a doll,"
Jamela Evans said. "It started getting worse and worse. If I was to
intervene in what he was doing, I'd get jumped on. I'm bruised up right
now from him jumping on me."

Jamela Evans showed a bruise on her chin she claims is from being punched by Tushambi Evans.

According to Jamela Evans, her husband found out that she was
secretly recording his abuse Thursday night and attacked her. She said
she ran to a neighbor for help, but Tushambi Evans took off with her car
and her son. It wasn't until Saturday morning that she learned what
happened to her little boy.

"I was told that my son was dead when he arrived at the hospital, but
that doctors revived him," Jamela Evans said. "He's now on life
support, but may have brain damage."
She said she's praying her son survives his injuries and grieves for not being able to protect him.

"I hope he doesn't hate me. I hope he doesn't think his mama didn't
want him," Jamela Evans said. "He's probably wondering why he's not with
his mama."

Tushambi Evans was booked in San Joaquin County Jail. Jamela Evans'
other children are in custody of Child Protective Services while the
investigation continues.
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STOCKTON, CA - Jamela Evans and her husband, Tushambi Evans, were
known to police in Richmond, Vallejo and Stockton for consistently
filing police reports against each other.

On Friday, their 2-year-old son, Tushambi Evans Jr, arrived at
Oakland Children's Hospital in critical condition and his father was
booked in San Joaquin County Jail for severely beating him.

Jamela Evans said on Saturday that she had warned Richmond police last year that her husband was abusing their child.

"I'm hurting on the inside, because I told police that he was abusing the baby. No one would listen to me," Jamela Evans said.

Richmond Police Supervisor of Investigations, Sgt. Louie Tirona,
confirmed the department has an extensive reporting history with the
Evans family.

Tirona couldn't release details, but said the couple accused each
other of various crimes, but not for child abuse. The reports go as far
back as 2009. Tirona said the only arrest was for Jamela Evans in May
2011 for violating a child custody order.

"I got arrested," said Jamela Evans. "[Tushambi] told them I
kidnapped the baby when he dropped the baby off to visit. And when he
came back I was gone."

In fact, Jamela Evans said she doesn't have any custody rights to her
son and Tushambi Evans received a restraining order against her. She
claimed her husband secretly filed court orders against her while they
were still living together in both Richmond and Vallejo.

"He was going to court on me the whole time without my knowledge and
telling the judge that he couldn't find me," Jamela Evans said. "He
falsified paperwork stating that his mother served me proof of service
at my grandmother's house in Richmond, but while we were living in
Vallejo."

Contra Costa County Superior Court could not comment on this specific
case, but said family members are allowed to serve court notices. The
court said if Jamela Evans never received the court documents, then she
needs to retain a lawyer and contest the rulings.

In Vallejo, where the Evans lived together for some time, the Vallejo
Police Department said it had one record from Solano County Child
Protective Services investigating Jamela Evans.

The report said an anonymous caller told CPS that Jamela Evans was
abusing her older child on Jan. 17, 2011. CPS investigated, but did not
find any evidence of child abuse and wrote that the caller's accusations
were unfounded.

Jamela Evans said after her arrest in May 2011 she moved to Stockton alone and visited her husband and baby often.

On Thursday afternoon, she called Stockton police to report domestic
and child abuse when Tushambi Evans was in her home. However, she said
she was too afraid to follow through with the report.

"I never opened the door for the officer," Jamela Evans said. "I was
afraid to open the door. He kept asking me, 'Why is the police officer
here? What do he want?' I told him 'I don't know.'"

When the officer left, Jamela Evans said her husband started beating
her. She escaped to a neighbor's house, but Tushambi Evans took off with
her car and her son.

The next day, Tushambi Evans Jr. showed up barely alive at Oakland
Children's Hospital and his father was arrested for felony child abuse
and domestic abuse.

San Joaquin County Child Protective Services now has custody of Jamela Evans' other children.

Jamela Evans said she is pregnant with Tushambi Evans' second child.
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Stockton Police have charged 28-year-old Tushambi Evans with the murder of his own child.Evans
is accused of child abuse in the death of his 2-year-old son. Police
said the child was taken to an Oakland hospital in March, but died from
his injuries Saturday.Investigators determined the alleged abuse
took place in the 500 block of West Sixth Street in Stockton. Evans is
currently being held in the San Joaquin County Jail.

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