In a city in the south of the USA, A horrible and unimaginable crime happened.
A mother decided to enslave her son adolescentuntil he couldn’t resist anymore.
After a long judicial investigation, the authorities managed to elucidate the caseand the woman received a dura judgment.
An abnormal weight, multiple injuries and a creepy room: what happened to Zake Nelson
He January 1, 2024, around 8:00 am (Florida time), after a call that alerted about an unconscious person, local police officers went to a house located at 112 Carolina Lake, city of Daytona Beach, Florida.
When they arrived, indeed, they found Zake Smith Nelson, a 14-year-old teenager, collapsed on the ground, visibly thin and with multiple serious injuries.
His mother, Talia Nelson, then 43 years old, He said that he was preparing food and that he did not know what happened to his son.
His He was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center, where died within a few hours.
From then on, an investigation was launched to determine what happened, and everything that was discovered was horrifying.
The teenager’s body weighed only 15 kilos at the time of his death. Nelson told investigators that this was because her son suffered from a rare bone disease, lactose intolerance and bulimia.
However, the authorities determined that he had not taken him to the doctor since June 2020, and that at the last check-up the teenager was in perfect health.
This fact, added to the fact that Zake had bruises and scars not compatible with self-harm, led to the investigation falling on Talia.
When the police received permission to search the three-bedroom house where the mother and son lived, they found a terrifying sight.
One of the rooms was half empty, only with some toys and old clothes and, above all, with a lot of urine smell. Upon further investigation, detectives determined that Nelson He had locked his son in said room for almost 4 years.from July 2020 until the day of his death.
Finally, the authorities concluded that Talia deliberately tortured, maliciously punished, and illegally confined Zake, to the point that, in the last weeks before death, the teenager could not walk, but crawled.
Although the autopsy results of the body were inconclusive, the police report stated that Zake died from «complications from neglect and abuse» by his mother.
Nelson tried to defend himself. She claimed that her son had food allergies and caused himself to vomit, and that she gave him protein shakes to make him gain weight. However, the investigators did not believe her, so they proceeded to her arrest and, subsequently, the justice system sentenced her to a harsh sentence.
Talia’s sentence: «May she be tormented forever»
Talia Nelson was arrested on February 9, 2024just over a month after the death of his son, charged with aggravated homicide of a minor and aggravated child abuse.
According to authorities, Nelson abused his son with the intent to cause great bodily harm, permanent disability or disfigurement, and ultimately death.
Since then, she has been held without bail in the Volusia County Jail, where she awaited her judicial process.
Finally on Monday January 5, 2026, Almost exactly two years after Zake’s death, the final trial of the case occurred.
According to a news release from the Seventh Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office, Talia, now 45, pleaded no contest to charges of aggravated homicide of a minor and aggravated child abuse.
After that, She was sentenced to 32 years in prison. Prosecutors ruled that he «neglected, physically abused and ultimately murdered his 14-year-old son.»
One of them, named Larizza, said that the case «made him cry»especially due to the condition of the victim.
«It’s incomprehensible that a mother neglects and tortures her own blood […] How could he watch his son suffer for weeks, months, and years until he weighed less than a typical 7-year-old? Cruel and ruthless are the words that come to mind. May she rest in peace, and may she be tormented forever. for his brutal and atrocious crime,» Larizza said in the statement.
