JAMIE JACKSON

LOCK HAVEN — Just days after 9-year-old Anson Landon Mitchell Stover’s bruised and battered body was found in a home along East Bald Eagle Street, his biological aunt has been charged with homicide.

Jamie Lynne Jackson, 36, was charged Wednesday night by Lock Haven City Det. Richard Simpson with criminal homicide and two counts aggravated assault, both Class 1 felonies.

She also faces a Felony 2 count of endangering the welfare of children and misdemeanor counts of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, abuse of corpse and concealing death of a child.

The police affidavit outlining the charges describe the boy’s body as having multiple bruises, injuries that appear to be from cigarette burns and abrasions.

Police discovered the boy’s body in a second floor bathtub on Monday, Nov. 30, at Jackson’s residence in the Lock Haven Gardens apartment at 657 E. Bald Eagle St.

The discovery was made after Jackson’s father, Hugh Jackson, called police after receiving a frantic call from his daughter, who told him “something terrible had happened and she needed his help,” said the affidavit.

Jackson’s father told police he had not spoken to his daughter in three years until that day and said she “was hysterical on the phone and was difficult to get information from,” the affidavit said.

The investigation is ongoing. Police did not say in their affidavit where the victims siblings and Jackson’s own children were taken.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Lock Haven City Police at 570-893-5911, the Clinton County Detectives office at 570-893-4141 or provide information online at www.clintonDA.org.