Man, 19, is held in boy's fatal beating

Four-year-old Jordan Jackson's body was bruised and beaten. His chest, head, face and back were black-and-blue.

As each hour ticked away last Thursday, little Jordan got sicker and sicker.

His mother's boyfriend, Nadir Turner, 19, took the battered boy to a park near his home in Willow Grove to play on a jungle gym, prosecutors said.

Before the park visit, Turner's sister, Zakia, took the boy to a local McDonald's.

"The child was complaining of pain and acting strangely," said Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor.

Prosecutors gave the following account:

The boy told Zakia twice that day, "Nadir hit me."

At the park, he vomited and complained of stomach pain. So Turner went home, laid Jordan on his bed, and waited for Jordan's mom, Venus Andaya, to arrive.

Andaya, 18, had dropped Jordan off at Turner's home last Tuesday so that he could care for the child while she went to school.

Andaya arrived Thursday afternoon to find Jordan unconscious and rushed him to Abington Memorial Medical Center with Turner in tow. Jordan was transferred to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he died Saturday. According to the autopsy, he had suffered a skull fracture in three places and two fractured ribs.

"Basically, the child's head was bashed in," Castor said.

Since then, Turner has been charged with aggravated assault and related offenses for allegedly injuring the little boy, prosecutors said.

Now, prosecutors have to decide whether Turner will be charged with first- or third-degree murder.

Andaya, who gave birth to Jordan when she was 14, left him in Turner's care last Tuesday.

Zakia Turner first noticed the bruises on Jordan's body when she was dressing him for lunch at McDonald's.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, obtained by the Daily News, Zakia asked Jordan what had happened, and that's when he said, "Nadir hit me."

Castor said the pathologist's report suggests that the child's injuries resulted from a beating.

Castor said Zakia confronted her brother about the bruised tot as well as a missed meeting with his probation officer on Thursday afternoon.

The affidavit stated that Turner stormed out of his house on Lamott Avenue, returning hours later and demanding that Jordan leave with him.

The frightened child refused, Castor said.

"Turner grabbed the child and forcibly removed him kicking and screaming and crying, and took him out the door," Castor said.

"This man was, in fact, this child's nightmare," Castor said.

Turner also screamed at the boy, "I'm not for this s---" as he hoisted the youngster over his shoulder, Castor said.

Nadir told police that once at the park, Jordan began to hold his stomach, clench his teeth and vomit uncontrollably.

Zakia saw her brother carrying the boy back into their home and thought he might have been sleeping.

That's when Jordan's mother arrived at Turner's home to find her little boy.

At the Abington emergency room, "the child was unresponsive, had no pulse, was not breathing and had bruises and injuries to the face, head, chest and back," Castor said.

Doctors tried to save the boy but were unsuccessful - leaving 18-year-old Andaya planning a funeral for her young son.

"This is a disgusting crime," Castor said. "I am very upset about it."

He expects to file murder charges against Turner by the end of the week, he said.