{"id":19354,"date":"2025-10-24T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19354\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:09:08","slug":"lauderdale-lakes-parents-accused-of-abuse-after-child-suffers-fractures-burns-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19354\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauderdale Lakes parents accused of abuse after child suffers fractures, burns: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0October 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EDIUQ2B2DND6RANLXITWOMICGU.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Tony Jennings and Jakita Gardner Fort Lauderdale police officers arrested Tony Jennings and Jakita Gardner during a traffic stop involving an Uber driver on Thursday, near their home, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A 21-year-old father and a 22-year-old mother accused of child abuse in Lauderdale Lakes were held without bond on Friday in Pompano Beach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Their child suffered \u201cblunt force injuries\u201d in different parts of his body &#8212; including several bilateral rib fractures &#8212; and burns to in and outside of his mouth, according to the police arrest reports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale police officers arrested Tony Jennings and Jakita Gardner during a traffic stop involving an Uber driver on Thursday, near their home, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward inmate records show Jennings, 21, was at the Paul Rein Detention Facility, and Gardner, 22, was at the North Broward Bureau. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives estimate the abuse went on from March 20 to April 24. Jennings and Gardner were each facing charges of first-degree felony aggravated child abuse and second-degree felony child neglect with bodily harm, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A judge denied them bond for the child abuse charge and set the bond for the child neglect charge at $100,000, records show. Broward County Circuit Judge Michael I. Rothschild was set to preside over the cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editors Manager Kelly Davis and Photojournalist Wade Hughes contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> More crime stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM Updated:\u00a0October 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandTony Jennings and Jakita Gardner Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-19354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}