In December 2022, a woman got into a car that was idling in the parking lot of a Columbus Donatos Pizza and drove off – with twin infant boys in the car’s back seat.
Over the next several hours, Nalah Jackson drove from Columbus to Dayton, and to various other locations in central and western Ohio, with the 5-month-old babies. One was missing for two and a half days.
Jackson told detectives that she stole the Honda Accord to drive to Dayton, intending to confront a man who was the father of her own children, court documents say.
Jackson, 25, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal kidnapping charges. She has agreed to serve 20 years in prison.
DoorDash driver left babies inside car
On the night of the abduction, the twins’ mother was working as a DoorDash driver and had gone into the pizza restaurant to pick up an order. When she came out and saw that her car and her boys were gone, she immediately called 911, court documents say.
The first boy was found about seven hours later, in the early morning hours of Dec. 20, 2022, in a parking lot near the Dayton International Airport. Jackson left the boy in a car seat, wrapped in a quilt, between two vehicles.