Houston woman charged with starving, injuring 3-month-old
Guidry, also known as Janice Jenkins , was charged Tuesday in connection with the infant's injuries and was being held in Harris County Jail without bail. She faces charges of injury to a child and injury to a child by omission in connection with the baby. Those charges are in addition to the prior charge of injury to a child Guidry faces in the case involving the 11-year-old boy, for which she was out on bail.
In that case, Guidry allegedly told the boy to take off all of his clothes, then struck him with an extension cord on his arms, chest, back, face and hand, according to court records. When the boy tried to run, Guidry reached for him and scratched his chest, drawing blood, records show.
A 57-year-old man, Lonnie Verl Jenkins Sr., also allegedly beat the boy, using a wooden board with silver tape around it. Jenkins also was charged with injury to a child.
The boy told police he had been punished previously with a belt, belt buckle and wooden paddle.
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Rosa Martinez.A girlfriend and colleague of local Norteño and Nuestra Familia gang members, Martinez, 31, has been of keen interest to local police and FBI agents since a violent schism unfolded six years ago among her lovers, family, and the Nuestra Familia.
Her story exemplifies the critical - and often tragic - supporting role played by women in California's current version of organized crime.
Under the radar
Like many women seriously involved with gangs, law enforcement always seemed to pass Martinez by whenever the big gang indictments came down.
"Women tend not to show up on the radar real quick, so they were being used extensively by the gang regiment," said Marina police Chief Eddie Rodriguez, a former Watsonville deputy police chief and member of a task force that was tailing the women.
During the surveillance, he said, "we got a better perspective on how women were being used. These women started popping up all over the place as couriers for the gang.