"I don't know what to say anymore. This is unheard of, this is nuts," heartbroken dad Julius Batties told The Post later Monday. "It makes me angry, it makes me sad," Batties added. "This is unreal. Three years and nothing? She's sitting in jail but that's nothing, that's not justice. It's like she never murdered my daughter."
After asking court officers several times Monday about whether Jones would be produced in court, Bronx Supreme Court Justice Joseph McCormick ultimately adjourned the case to Wednesday. The abandoned court appearance comes after the third anniversary of police discovering little Julissia's battered body in Jones' apartment at NYCHA's Mitchell Houses complex on Aug. 10, 2021.
The case shocked the Big Apple and sparked allegations that the city's Administration of Children's Services had failed the girl by returning her to her mom's home, where there had been a known history of violence. Part of the delay comes from the fact that it took nearly a year after Julissia's shocking death, in June 2022, for cops to arrest Jones and her son, Paul Fine Jr., 19, on murder and manslaughter charges.
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