Zaikiya Duncan, A Texas Woman Helps Handcuffed Twins After They Escape Abusive Home

 Zaikiya Duncan, A Texas Woman Helps Handcuffed Twins After They Escape Abusive Home

 

Zaikiya Duncan is connected to a sad case of potential child abuse went before a judge in Louisiana Thursday morning to determine when she will be brought back to Texas.

The mother and her boyfriend are expected to arrive at the Harris County Jail at some point. Both are facing injury to a child charges and are accused of some horrific acts of child abuse.



The mother has been identified as 40-year-old Zaikiya Duncan and her boyfriend is 27-year-old Jova Terrell.

Both appeared before a judge and are being held without bond in Louisiana. Harris County has 30 days to extradite them back to the Houston area.

ABC13 uncovered the video showing twin 16-year-olds going to a neighbor's home for help in Cypress. Deputies said they had been handcuffed. That led to the search for their mother, her boyfriend, and their siblings in Baton Rouge.



Duncan and Terrell, along with five children, were at the center of an Amber Alert issued on Tuesday. They were eventually all found in Louisiana, and the adults were arrested.

This is how everything started.

The woman's 16-year-old twins -- a boy and a girl -- were captured at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday going door to door begging for help. One of them was not even wearing a shirt, and the weather was fairly cold that morning.

It's unclear how long they were looking for help, but a woman eventually let them inside. She said she was horrified at their condition.