Vanessa Jackson
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Keith Tyrone Jackson Vanessa Bruce Jackson Vanessa Jackson Keith Jackson Jackson Tyrone
Bruce Jackson reminded Vanessa Jackson, 50, who took him in as a foster child when he was 7 and later adopted him, how she took away his childhood as she yelled at them, cursed them, hit them with brooms, rulers, sticks, shoes and belt buckles and that he still has the marks to prove it. In a wrenching, angry series of statements that brought onlookers to tears, Mr. Jackson and his brothers described publicly for the first time the horror of their life in Mrs. Jackson's Collingswood, N.J., home. Jackson sat impassively in her chair, staring straight ahead, as the boys recounted their life with her and her husband, Raymond, who died in late 2004: their sparse diets of raw food, how they were beaten with brooms and belts and forced to stand on the occasions when they were allowed to eat.