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Talia M. Nelson (Volusia County Sheriff

Talia M. Nelson (Volusia County Sheriff’s Office)

A 43-year-old woman in Florida is accused of knowingly torturing, starving, and neglecting her 14-year-old son, who weighed only 33 pounds when he was killed. Talia M. Nelson was taken into custody on Friday and charged with one count each of first-degree felony murder, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and aggravated child abuse in the death of Zayke Smith-Nelson, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

The average weight for a 14-year-old boy is between 110 and 120 pounds, per the Center for Disease Control.

Officers with the Daytona Beach Police Department at about 8:02 p.m. on Jan. 1 responded to Nelson’s home on Carolina Lake Drive regarding a report of an unconscious juvenile, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by The Daytona Beach News-Journal. Upon arriving at the home, first responders made contact with Nelson, who claimed that she was cooking dinner for son when she saw that he had fallen to the floor unconscious.

Officers at the scene reportedly noted that the child “appeared to be extremely malnourished, weighing only 33 pounds” and had what appeared to be bedsores running up the side of his body. Nelson explained the boy’s emaciated appearance by telling police that Zayke was bulimic, lactose intolerant, and lived with a rare bone disease. However, Nelson could not identify the names of any doctors who had diagnosed her son with those ailments.

A search of the home reportedly revealed one of three bedrooms contained no furniture, only soiled clothing and what smelled like “stale urine,” police said. In the main bedroom, officers found laptops issued for the purpose of home-schooling that were still in the boxes and appeared to have never been opened.

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