Barely a week after her baby daughter was killed, Raelene Jemison told the world that she hated her boyfriend, the man who had been charged with the murder.
‘He deserves everything that is coming to him,’ Jemison, the mother of 10-month-old Jordyn Chu, told KSNV.
Eric Chu, 31, had been taken into custody just days before. But now, two months later, Jemison is joining him behind bars on a second-degree murder charge.
It has been a surprising twist in a case that includes skull fractures, broken arms, and changing stories of fear and abuse.
Raelene Jemison, 36, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of her 10-month-old daughter Jordyn Chu
Barely a week after her baby daughter was killed, Jemison went on television (pictured) and told the world that she hated the man, her boyfriend, who had been charged with the murder
Chu called 911 around 4.50pm on January 23 to report that Jordyn wasn’t breathing and was convulsing, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Authorities were also called to the scene after medical personnel reported they were being threatened by Chu, who was taking care of the couple’s three children while Jemison was at work.
The father told police he had been giving Jordyn a bath when she suffered a seizure and stopped breathing.
But doctors found extensive brain injuries, including two skull fractures, that Chu could not explain.
‘One was previous. It was a previous one that bled,’ Jemison, 36, told KSNV. ‘I never saw any marks on her.’
Jordyn died the next day from ‘blunt force injuries to her head and neck’, according to the Clark County Coroner’s Office. Her death was ruled a homicide.
‘He deserves everything that is coming to him,’ Jemison (pictured with Jordyn’s twin CJ) told station KSNV during the interview
Chu (pictured) called 911 around 4.50pm on January 23 to report that Jordyn wasn’t breathing and was convulsing
Chu left town after speaking to police and was arrested three days later by US Marshals in Chicago before being extradited back to Las Vegas.
After Jordyn’s death, Jemison told authorities that she had tried to leave her boyfriend but was afraid he could harm her and their children, an arrest warrant states.
She also claimed Chu had hit her in the past and that she had told him on multiple occasions that he was being ‘too rough with their children’.
The mother even told police that, on the day Jordyn was hospitalized, Chu told her that ‘one would have been fine’, according to the warrant.
She claimed that on the night before her daughter died, Chu also shook their infant son in his bouncer seat when he wouldn’t stop crying.
And, in June 2017, Jemison called police and claimed that Chu said he was going to ‘end up killing’ their twins and threw a baby bottle against the wall.
After Jordyn’s death, Jemison told authorities she had tried to leave her boyfriend but was afraid he could harm her. But on TV the mother claimed she had never seen any warning signs
‘I never, ever thought he would hurt the kids,’ Jemison said during the interview. ‘Not once’
He was arrested that day for owning a firearm despite two previous domestic violence convictions in 2014 and 2016.
But when it came time to talk to the press, Jemison claimed she had never seen any warning signs that her boyfriend could ever harm their children.
‘I never, ever thought he would hurt the kids,’ she told KSNV. ‘Not once.’
‘I think he had a psychotic breakdown and doesn’t remember the incident.’
And, when speaking with the Review-Journal, Jemison said she never saw bruises on her children and that Chu was ‘fine with them’.
‘I never once thought he would hurt those kids,’ she told the newspaper.
Four months before Jordyn died, Jemison and Chu were investigated by the Clark County Department of Family Services after Jordyn’s brother suffered a broken arm
Jemison also denied she ever told police that Chu said he would ‘end up killing his children’, or that he had ever threatened their children or thrown a baby bottle during the June 2017 incident.
Four months before Jordyn died, Jemison and Chu were investigated by the Clark County Department of Family Services.
Family Services was asked to investigate neglect allegations after Jordyn’s twin CJ broke his arm after allegedly falling from a bed during a diaper change.
The case was closed after the department determined that the allegations were unsubstantiated.
After Jordyn was admitted to the hospital, a doctor also noticed that CJ had marks on his neck and bruises, the police report states.
It remains unclear what led to Jemison’s arrest this week.