Jackson pleads guilty over battery charge

An Ohio woman has pleaded guilty to a battery charge in Indianapolis that she acquired while being processed in jail upon her arrest in the kidnapping of 5-month-old twin boys from Columbus.

Nalah T. Jackson, 24, on Wednesday received a one-year sentence with 60 of those days to be spent in jail after pleading guilty to battery by bodily waste, according to the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office.

According to court documents, Jackson picked up the felony charge while she underwent processing in the Marion County Jail, following her arrest in the kidnapping of infants Ky’air Thomas and Kason Thomas. A probable cause affidavit said Jackson spit in a deputy’s face while they tried to put her handcuffs back on.

Indianapolis police arrested Jackson on Dec. 22, days after Ky’air Thomas and Kason Thomas were taken when the car they were in was stolen. The babies were in the back seat of their mother’s running car outside a pizza restaurant when the vehicle was taken. A passerby found Ky’air Thomas early the next day in a parking lot outside Dayton International Airport. Authorities and the community continued to look for Kason Thomas, and the search heightened when the child was not with Jackson upon her arrest.

Kason Thomas was found inside a car at a downtown Papa John’s after Indianapolis cousins Shyann Belmar and Mecka Curry stepped in to help the search. The 27-year-olds also led police to Jackson after they encountered her at a gas station on the northwest side of the city and later realized she was the suspected kidnapper on the news.

In Ohio, Jackson faces two counts of kidnapping in the abduction of the twins.

Contact Sarah Nelson at 317-503-7514 or sarah.nelson@indystar.com.