‘Blamed for his murder’ | Indiana doctors attempt to complete psych exams for mother charged in Cairo Jordan’s death (2024)

SALEM, Indiana — Dejaune Anderson, the woman accused of killing her 5-year-old son Cairo Jordan, has filed six new motions this week that shed new light on the case ahead of her June court date. She's also filed a new lawsuit against the court clerk.

Cairo’s body was found inside a suitcase that had been dumped in rural Washington County in 2022. Anderson is charged with murder, neglect of a dependent and obstruction of justice in the young boy's death.

She is the second woman charged in Cario’s death.

Anderson has been fighting to represent herself in court for months. Washington County Judge Larry Medlock won’t allow her to do so until two Indiana doctors complete psychiatric evaluations to determine whether she is competent to stand trial.

Despite Anderson’s push back against the evaluations, in new motions filed on Tuesday, it appears both doctors have attempted to complete those exams in recent weeks.

The doctors – Dr. Stephanie Calloway and Dr. George Parker – have not filed completed reports to the court as of Friday, however, it’s unclear if Anderson complied with them when undergoing the psychiatric evaluations.

In an affidavit filed to “decline psychiatric evaluation,” Anderson informed the court that she declined Parker’s exam on May 28 and chose to “remain silent.”

In another motion, Anderson reports that Calloway visited her on April 30.

“Calloway was presented with all filings by [me] due to Washington County Circuit Court only providing a few filings and not all presented for Dr. Calloway to make her evaluation from,” she said.

‘You get blamed for his murder’

Anderson also filed a 5-page document outlining the “injustices” faced while at the Washington County Jail, where she remains without bond.

“I am appalled by the unethical treatment I have experienced within this jail,” she said. “It’s mind blowing to be a healer and high priestess receiving visions of the trauma and negativity that fill this place as I have to, [and] forced to interact with unethical, unintelligent life forms of humanity.”

Anderson, who refers to herself as Princess Califia Hatun Tupak Bey II, goes on to write about spirituality and her worldviews, claiming that “Salem, Indiana is being controlled by unethical humanity."

The affidavit then goes into details about her family and the circ*mstances of her arrest.

“Imagine your child is saved by your brother from the people who kidnapped you and him. Only for your brother to give him back to the slaveman for your child to be sold to the highest bidder,” Anderson wrote. “You are blamed for his murder.”

“Then you do the energy work and the great soldiers of America find your son only to leave him without his mother’s love because they lack the awareness to comprehend what truly happened. The details are so hard for them to believe that you were placed under the greatest mind control to mankind and broke free,” she continued.

After a years-long nationwide manhunt, Indiana State Police said Anderson was arrested in California earlier this year while boarding a public transit train. In her new motions, Anderson explains she was there looking for her “son.”

She will be back in court on June 20.

New civil lawsuit

Anderson has also filed a motion requesting the U.S. Supreme Court step in and dismiss her case, claiming Washing County doesn’t have jurisdiction. This comes after she previously requested Indiana’s state Supreme Court to appoint a special judge to her case.

On Thursday, Anderson filed a separate civil lawsuit against Washington County Circuit and Superior Court Clerk Stephanie K. Rockey claiming she has shown “gross negligence to perform her duties.”

According to the new suit, filed in Washington Superior Court, Rockey signed an amended arrest warrant for Anderson in October 2022, but that document wasn’t made public until after Anderson’s arrest in March.

“[I] had no way of knowing there was a warrant for [my] arrest,” Anderson wrote. She also believes the clerk has mishandled filing her handwritten motions since her arrest.

Court records show Anderson has filed at least 31 documents since April 8.

WHAS11 reviewed each document and found Rockey filed each motion to the court within two days of the date written on the motion. Many, however, were filed on the same day and sometimes within hours of being written by Anderson.

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