chagrin
03-21-2007, 12:15 PM
They are charging the Molester and his parents - :clap:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/21/missing.boy.ap/index.html
Prosecutor wants death penalty for boy's slaying
POSTED: 2:09 p.m. EDT, March 21, 2007
Story Highlights• NEW: Child molester, parents, indicted in slaying of Georgia boy
• NEW: Prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty
• Body of Christopher Barrios, 6, found in trash bag on side of road
• Slain boy and suspects were trailer park neighbors
SAVANNAH, Georgia (AP) -- A convicted child molester and his parents were indicted Wednesday on charges they molested and then murdered a 6-year-old neighbor boy.
The body of Christopher Barrios was found last week in a trash bag dumped on a roadside.
Glynn County District Attorney Stephen D. Kelley said he will seek the death penalty against George David Edenfield and his parents, David and Peggy Edenfield.
George Edenfield, 32, has a prior child molestation conviction from 1997. Neighbors described him as mentally slow and child-like.
A friend of the Edenfield family, Donald Dale, was indicted on charges of concealing a body and tampering with evidence.
Christopher was missing for a week before a game warden found his body last Thursday about three miles from his trailer park home 60 miles south of Savannah, Georgia.
The suspects were neighbors of the boy.
Investigators said the four suspects told a tangle of conflicting and ever-shifting stories. At first, they said they knew nothing about the boy's disappearance, that he was still alive. Later, they acknowledged that he had been abducted, killed and buried.
But repeated searches of the spots where the boy was supposedly buried turned up nothing, investigators said.
Neighbors told police that they last saw the boy on the evening of March 8, playing by himself on the swing set outside a friend's home. One of his toys, a Star Wars light saber, was found beside the road.
Edenfield was arrested shortly after the disappearance and charged with violating his probation from the child molestation conviction, which prohibits him from contact with children.
He eventually admitted under questioning that he played a role in Christopher's disappearance, but answered some questions as a child of 5 would, police said.
Edenfield's parents were initially jailed on charges of obstruction and lying to police. The fourth suspect, Donald Dale, told investigators he helped dispose of the boy's corpse, authorities said.
Neighbors say the Edenfields moved into the mobile home park less than a year ago. Word soon spread that one of them was a convicted child molester, a rumor neighbors easily confirmed via Georgia's online sex offender registry.
Many kept their distance from the Edenfields' ramshackle trailer, with filled trash bags and aluminum cans piled under the rickety porch.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/21/missing.boy.ap/index.html
Prosecutor wants death penalty for boy's slaying
POSTED: 2:09 p.m. EDT, March 21, 2007
Story Highlights• NEW: Child molester, parents, indicted in slaying of Georgia boy
• NEW: Prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty
• Body of Christopher Barrios, 6, found in trash bag on side of road
• Slain boy and suspects were trailer park neighbors
SAVANNAH, Georgia (AP) -- A convicted child molester and his parents were indicted Wednesday on charges they molested and then murdered a 6-year-old neighbor boy.
The body of Christopher Barrios was found last week in a trash bag dumped on a roadside.
Glynn County District Attorney Stephen D. Kelley said he will seek the death penalty against George David Edenfield and his parents, David and Peggy Edenfield.
George Edenfield, 32, has a prior child molestation conviction from 1997. Neighbors described him as mentally slow and child-like.
A friend of the Edenfield family, Donald Dale, was indicted on charges of concealing a body and tampering with evidence.
Christopher was missing for a week before a game warden found his body last Thursday about three miles from his trailer park home 60 miles south of Savannah, Georgia.
The suspects were neighbors of the boy.
Investigators said the four suspects told a tangle of conflicting and ever-shifting stories. At first, they said they knew nothing about the boy's disappearance, that he was still alive. Later, they acknowledged that he had been abducted, killed and buried.
But repeated searches of the spots where the boy was supposedly buried turned up nothing, investigators said.
Neighbors told police that they last saw the boy on the evening of March 8, playing by himself on the swing set outside a friend's home. One of his toys, a Star Wars light saber, was found beside the road.
Edenfield was arrested shortly after the disappearance and charged with violating his probation from the child molestation conviction, which prohibits him from contact with children.
He eventually admitted under questioning that he played a role in Christopher's disappearance, but answered some questions as a child of 5 would, police said.
Edenfield's parents were initially jailed on charges of obstruction and lying to police. The fourth suspect, Donald Dale, told investigators he helped dispose of the boy's corpse, authorities said.
Neighbors say the Edenfields moved into the mobile home park less than a year ago. Word soon spread that one of them was a convicted child molester, a rumor neighbors easily confirmed via Georgia's online sex offender registry.
Many kept their distance from the Edenfields' ramshackle trailer, with filled trash bags and aluminum cans piled under the rickety porch.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.