I get the idea that I’ve just read a superhero origin story. Here’s a link.

Chloe Lyn Jackson-Jones is a 39-year-old woman who adopted a young boy, then proceeded to abuse him for years.

If science finds a way to successfully execute a person more than once, Chloe is just the kind of person who deserves it. But as it is now, she’s just been sentenced for a long list of charges related to her abuse and torture of a child.

I had an idea of how I’d structure this article, and this would have been the part where I would have described the conditions that the boy escaped from. But I’ve decided not to go much into that, here. If you’re up for getting pissed off, follow the link above.

What I do want to point out is that Chloe sent photos of the abuse via text message. Did none of the recipients report the abuse to the proper authorities?

At the time of the boy’s escape, he was 11-years-old and weighed only 61 pounds. The average weight of an 11-year-old boy is about 79 pounds.

Now, for his escape. His sadistic tormentor tied him to a chair, and left him in his bedroom closet with the door locked. No light. No food. No bathroom. No awareness of the passage of time.

But he had hope, tenacity, and plenty of both. After having undone his bonds, the boy then proceeded to dog through the wall between his closet and his bedroom. By the time he was done, his little fingers had clawed through two layers of sheetrock!

After having made the sheetrock yield to his indomitable will, he wasn’t done proving that he was a living legend. He then opened his second story window, then jumped to freedom. And he did this as a severely-underweight 11-year-old. He was later found by neighbors, asking for something to eat.

If you find yourself in a situation that you think sucks, remember the boy who escaped from Chloe Lyn Jackson-Jones. His situation was hellish, but he mustered his tenacity and escaped. What are you doing to change your situation for the better?

The boy is currently in a loving home with his sister, and is a straight-A student. And he’s probably a few years away from wearing a cape, assuming he hasn’t donned one, already.

But then there’s the beast, herself. She pled guilty. Considering everything that was against her, she didn’t have much of a chance in any effort in her defense.

When you hear about cases like this, people tend to get into creative punishments. But I’m going to give that a skip, because it might not even be legal to say what I want to see done to her. Chloe received the maximum sentence of 40 years of prison, 20 of which she will be required to serve before being considered for parole. Assuming she serves the maximum sentence, she will be 79 years old at the time she is released. It is likely that Chloe will die in prison.

But probably not because she’ll be getting her ass kicked on a daily basis. As much as we’d like to think that people who abuse women, children, and family are singled out for the worst treatment in prison, what I’ve gleaned is that this is a myth that those of us on the outside tell ourselves to help us sleep at night.

Prisons are filled with people who beat their wives, who refuse to pay child support, and who beat their children nearly to death. In prison, Chloe will be in the company of her own kind. Oftentimes, they’ll join a prison gang for protection. Or worse, they’ll convert to a religion that believes that child abuse is normal, which in prisons functions as its own gang. You know which religion I mean.

So, no, I’m not counting on “prison justice”. But, who knows? She might just learn firsthand why her kind of abuse is FUBAR.