Woman jailed after radio station tapes threats made to children

DECATUR - A 51-year-old woman was jailed after a radio station accidentally taped her over the telephone yelling at a child in the background. <br> <br> Venus Taylor of Stone Mountain was charged with cruelty to children and terroristic threats. She was being held Thursday at the DeKalb County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail, police said. <br> <br> Taylor was arrested Nov. 24, three days after a disc jockey at WALR-FM picked up a station phone line and heard a voice yelling and a child wailing in the background, said Jed Nitzberg, spokesman for the state Division of Family and Children Services. <br> <br> The station taped the call and turned it over to Atlanta police, who played it for the child welfare agency, Nitzberg said. <br> <br> ``The way it starts, you just hear the yelling,&#39;&#39; Nitzberg said. ``You can&#39;t tell whether she thought she&#39;d hung up or thought she was holding or what.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> He said the woman calls the child names and threatens to beat her, says she hates her and tells her she should have been left in a foster home. <br> <br> The station did not air the call.