Imani Jennings Had an Accident

Imani Jennings was 20 months old. She hadn’t quite grasped the whole
potty-training thing yet. On Friday, little Imani had an accident and
urinated on the floor. For that little accident, she was
beaten…brutally. She was beaten for over an hour with a metal rod, a
cable wire, a metal bed spring, and the fists of Anthony Weakfall Jr.,
her mother’s dick. When the beating was over, she was left there to
die on the floor, alone. Her 15-year-old abuser didn’t have time to
stick around and clean up the mess - he had to get to school.
Hours later, Imani’s mother, 18-year-old Cherron Patterson, returned home
from school. She found Imani in the apartment, bloodied and
unresponsive. Imani’s face was so beaten and bloodied that it was
unrecognizable…her eyes were swollen shut, she was covered in bruises
from the waist up. Patterson called 911 from a neighbor’s home. When
paramedics arrived at the scene, they pronounced Imani dead. While it
is not clear if she was already dead when Weakfall left that morning,
it is likely that she died at some point during the day. Alone and in
severe pain.
This isn’t a case where her abuser suddenly snapped,
Imani had been enduring abuse from her mother and the dick for several
weeks. Patterson admitted that she had played a part in the abuse of
the child. They would both beat Imani for her potty-training accidents.
Investigators also revealed that Imani spent day after day alone in the
apartment while Patterson and Weakfall attended school. For the last
two weeks, she was left alone with nothing but a bowl of chicken
nuggets and a glass of milk to sustain her…for 8 hours a day.
Neighbors say they had no idea that such abuse was being doled out on little
Imani. They paint a picture of a happy little family that could be seen
playing on the porch together…you never would have known that Weakfall
wasn’t her real daddy. There were no previous calls to the home from
either the police department or Social Services.
Lee Jennings, Imani’s biological father, asked, “Why? That’s the only
question I kept asking myself why would somebody do something like
that? What did she ever do to anybody?” Lee had dated Patterson from
2006 to 2007. After the relationship ended, Jennings filed for
custody…he loved and wanted that baby girl. Patterson was denying his
visitation rights.
Cherron Patterson, now 7 months pregnant with Weakfalls child, is being held on
a $50,000 cash bail. She is being charged with assault and endangering
the welfare of a child. Anthony Weakfall Jr. is being charged with
second-degree murder. While he is currently being held at Hillbrook
Juvenile Detention Center without bail, he will be charged as an adult.

RIP Imani