Cheri Akil (Tarrant County Jail), John Peter Smith Hospital (YouTube/Screengrab)
A series of arrests over a week in and around Fort Worth, Texas tells the story of life spiraling dangerously out of control.
What began on April 10 as a credit or debit card abuse case against 39-year-old Cheri Aziza Akil reportedly escalated just two days later to drunk driving, suicidal thoughts and beating a pregnant hospital worker with such force that the woman lost her unborn baby. Days later, a long-standing case of methamphetamine possession appears to have once again put Akil in Taylor County legal jeopardy after the alleged assault, Tarrant County Jail records show.
Akil’s financial crime case led to her arrest on April 10 and the posting of $1,500 bail. Prison records show that Akil was arrested on April 12 for alleged drunk driving and allegedly intentionally/knowingly operating an illegal game room. Records also show that a murder charge was filed the same day.
As of April 17, prison records indicated that the defendant also has a pending possession of methamphetamine case.
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According to Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA, Akil is accused of punching the pregnant hospital worker in the stomach on April 12 at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth just after noon. This reportedly happened after Akil was in the custody of the Tarrant County Sheriff. She was described in the report as a potentially suicidal inmate who had been taken to the hospital for treatment.
Akil, whose Facebook page identifies her as a “stay-at-home parent,” was allegedly being held in bed by hospital staff as she hit the hospital worker. After the beating, hospital staff found that the pregnant woman’s unborn child had no pulse.
Under Texas law, it is a felony when a “person murders a person under the age of 10” – and the definition of a person “means any living human being, including an unborn child, at any stage of pregnancy from fertilization to birth.”
An October 2018 report by Abilene ABC affiliate KTXS named Akil as one of 40 people charged in Taylor County. That was a meth possession case that resulted in a guilty plea in June 2021 with a deferred decision on a sentence of three years of community supervision and 160 hours of community service, according to Taylor County court records reviewed by Law&Crime.
Records also show that in October 2022, prosecutors filed a request to reverse this deferral. A filing dated January 4, 2023 says Akil was found guilty, her deferred community supervision was revoked, and a seven-year probationary period went into effect. Another request to have community oversight removed was filed on April 17, the day Akil was listed in Tarrant County’s records as the subject of a ban in the meth possession case.
In June 2021, the judge who accepted the meth possession guilty plea found Akil to be mentally competent.
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