Woman charged with torture of seven-year-old boy

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The Jefferson Parish district attorney's office on Nov. 20 formally charged a Kenner woman with cruelty to a juvenile for allegedly abusing a 7-year-old boy who described the acts as torture.

The boy, who was diagnosed in 2015 with a skull fracture, burns, bruises and cuts, told investigators Morning Brooks, 47, "wanted to kill him," authorities said.

He accused Brooks, his father's former girlfriend, of hitting him on the head with a cooking pan, pushing tacks in his skin, punching him and forcing him to kneel naked in a corner, according to Kenner police.

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