CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A 37-year-old mother of three pleaded guilty today to felonious assault and related offenses for abusing her 14- and 15-year-old sons, including forcing one to eat his own feces.

Talthina Jackson pleaded guilty to one count of felonious assault, three counts of child endangerment and two counts of domestic violence. She will be sentenced March 2 and faces a maximum sentence of 26 years.

According to Ryan Miday, spokesman for the county prosecutor, Jackson found her 15-year-old son using the computer in her bedroom Aug. 14.

She thought he was stealing from her. She hit him with her keys, bit him, choked him, hit him in the face with aerosol cans and hit his head with an iron. With blood running down his head, he ran to a neighbor's house. Police were called. The boy received six stitches.

"This child also has multiple scars over his body from being beaten with a pole," Miday said.

He was locked in his room for long periods of time and had to urinate out of the bedroom window one day and defecate in his closet another day.

When she smelled the feces, she made him eat it and gave him a plastic bag to vomit in. Another time, she thought he had urinated on plastic she had put on the floor to paint the walls. She made him lick it up. It was cat urine, Miday said.

Another day, she forced him to finish the cat's uneaten canned food. The boy vomited in the bowl and she made him eat that as well.