A Gary woman is charged with abusing her 11-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son after the girl pretended to record a “TikTok” to document it, records show.
Lakeisha Mosley, 34, was charged Wednesday with a dozen felonies, including battery resulting in bodily injury to a person less than 14 years of age, intimidation and strangulation.
She is in custody, held on a $15,000 cash bond. Her next hearing is Dec. 11.
The girl told Det. Olivia Vasquez that her mom threatened to kill them on Aug. 21 while driving home from her brother’s Edgewater appointment if she said anything to the Indiana Department of Child Services.
She said Mosley beat the kids, at times waving around a kitchen knife. In one incident in mid-August, after her brother, 8, wasn’t putting his shoes on for church, Mosley strangled him and was “squishing” him until he turned red, the affidavit states.
The girl recorded the incident while pretending she was making a TikTok video. She sent it to her father.
The child detailed another incident where her mother whipped her with a belt on her birthday, then told her to “deal with it,” the affidavit states. Mosley also brought men home, and they walked around the children, including a younger brother, 3, “nearly naked,” charges allege.
The boy, 8, said Mosley was “cuckoo,” adding it was a “good thing we know how to dodge.”
He showed Vasquez a scar on his finger from a kitchen knife from Mosley.
The older children’s fathers backed up their account, sharing the video of Mosley choking the boy. The affidavit noted Mosley had an existing court order to not physically beat him.
Mosley worked for the Gary Parks Department from October 2023 through November 2024, when she was terminated due to what she termed harassment and retaliation by her boss, according to Post-Tribune archives.