The mother identified as Zaikiya Duncan appeared at an extradition hearing Thursday, where a judge said Harris County has 30 days to extradite her back to the Houston area.
A mother connected to a sad case of potential child abuse went before a judge in Louisiana Thursday morning to determine when she will be brought back to Texas. The mother and her boyfriend are expected to arrive at the Harris County Jail at some point.
Both are facing injury to a child charges and are accused of some horrific acts of child abuse. The mother has been identified as 40-year-old Zaikiya Duncan and her boyfriend is 27-year-old Jova Terrell. Both appeared before a judge and are being held without bond in Louisiana. Harris County has 30 days to extradite them back to the Houston area. ABC13 uncovered the video showing twin 16-year-olds going to a neighbor's home for help in Cypress. Deputies said they had been handcuffed. That led to the search for their mother, her boyfriend, and their siblings in Baton Rouge.Duncan and Terrell, along with five children, were at the center of an Amber Alert issued on Tuesday. They were eventually all found in Louisiana, and the adults were arrested.The woman's 16-year-old twins -- a boy and a girl -- were captured at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday going door to door begging for help. One of them was not even wearing a shirt, and the weather was fairly cold that morning. It's unclear how long they were looking for help, but a woman eventually let them inside. She said she was horrified at their condition. She told ABC13 that the teenagers were hungry and that they shared details of abuse they suffered at home, claiming not having eaten in days and being handcuffed and locked inside the laundry room of their Cypress home."The girl was saying, 'This is what's going on,' and the boy was just, all he could think about was food. They sat down, both of them said they were hungry. They started eating and saying how they moved from Baton Rouge to here," the neighbor said.We looked into the mother's background and found that she has a documented case of child abuse in Louisiana from 2012.For news updates, follow Charly Edsitty on
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