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Friday, June 24, 2011

Friday's Angel: NUBIA DOCTOR (BARAHONA)

Friday, April 15, 2011

Someone posed the question how could this little girl go to school everyday and still smile. A poster commented because she wasn't home and after reading more of her tragic life that makes sense. The State of Florida should be liable for her death. This is an Epic FAIL on behalf of Child Protective Services.

Jorge Barahona, an adoptive father of 4 foster children, is charged with murdering his 10 year old daughter on Feb 10, 2011. Four days later on Valentine’s Day Barahona reportedly doused his adoptive son with highly toxic chemicals and gave him sleeping pills. The boy suffered from severe chemical burns and is said to have been suffering from seizures and convulsing when he was found. Victor Barhaona was allegedly doused in a chemical so toxic, rescue workers had to wear hazmat suits and reported feeling ill while trying to save the boy. The pair was found along Interstate 95 in Palm Beach, Florida along with the body of his twin sister who was later discovered in the truck.


Nubia was beaten to death. She had been stuffed in a plastic bag and toxic chemicals had been poured on her body. 
School authorities repeatedly asked child services to look into the home life of little 10-year old Nubia, and her twin brother, Victor fearing they were being abused by adoptive parents, Jorge and Carmen Barahona.

School officials noticed things were not right for Nubia as early as 2007. She had been caught stealing food from the cafeteria and was frail and thin in appearance. When she was question she stated she was afraid of her mother who hit her. The information failed to make it to the court welfare psychologist who testified at an adoption hearing, that the Barahona’s were wonderful parents and should be able to adopt Nubia and her twin brother, Victor.

UPDATES ON THE SAD LIFE OF NUBIA DOCTOR

The little girl whose decomposing body was found in the back of an adoptive father [read monster['s pickup truck last week endured a hellish life punctuated by sexual abuse, hunger, bruises, hair loss and the lack of care for a rare medical condition.


The state of Florida thought they were saving little Nubia's life when they put the little girl and her twin brother in a foster home. Nubia and Victor were formally adopted by the foster parents, Jorge and Carla Barahona, in 2008.

Out of the frying pan...

The twins were born in 2000 to a mother who admitted to using drugs. She is described as being 18 and homeless.


After reports of abuse, the state wouldn’t allow her to see the children, and they went into the care of their biological father.


He was soon arrested and charged with sexually assaulting another child.


The records do not indicate whether the man was charged.


The documents released Monday redact mention of a specific medical condition, but they hint at a hormonal problem. Authorities confirmed to ABCNews.com that Nubia was intersexed, meaning she was born with both male and female genitals.
Despite her need to see doctors regularly, a caseworker wrote that her adopted parents simply put her alone on a "medical bus" and often failed to see that she made appointments.
Her Pleas for Help Ignored:

In perhaps the most disturbing of at least eight child welfare reports, in 2005 Nubia accused her foster father of sexual abuse, just months after being removed from the home of her biological father because she had been molested.


The sexual abuse investigation was dropped after a psychologist said there was not enough conclusive evidence that the girl had not made up the story.


"Nubia disclosed to [to the psychologist] that the foster father tickled her private parts," wrote a case worker in 2005.


How gullible are they?


A case worker in 2007 wrote: "Nubia's hunger has been uncontrollable, she sneaks and steals food, steals money, has hair loss, is very thin, nervous and jittery. Nubia also has an unpleasant odor… In the past it is believed Nubia's adoption was halted when Nubia was coming to school dirty while in the adoptive mother's care."


Another caseworker wrote, "A couple of months ago Nubia had a scratch on her nose. It is said Nubia scratches her nose a lot and that she is always falling."


Just days before the gruesome discovery of her body along I-95, a caller to an abuse hot-line [identified in another report as the Barahonas' granddaughter, unless this was an additional report] reported that the Barahona twins were being forced to stand in the bathtub for hours at a time with their hands and feet bound.


Victor Current Status:

On March 2nd he was released from the hospital and is still recovering from his injuries. He is in state custody and some biological family members are trying to adopt him.


Monster’s Current Status:

Jorge Barahona sits with handcuffed, and wearing chains on his ankles in a Miami-Dade courtroom Monday, March 28, 2011. He and his wife Carmen Barahona were arraigned on first degree murder charges in the murder of foster child Nubia Barahona. State prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.



Originally posted by Ms. Angela's Stuff at 1:59 PM


Angie's signing off for now...feel free to read me again! Until the Next time Stay Blessed and Humble. Peace!

Friday's Angel: MYA LYONS

Friday, April 1, 2011

MYA LYONS

On July 15, 2008, Mya’s body was found fatally stabbed in the throat and abdomen in a poorly-lit dead end alley overgrown with bushes and weeds about a half block from her father’s home in the 8400 block of South Gilbert Court. Her father Richard Lyons discovered her body late Monday. She was pronounced dead at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center at 2:10 a.m., according to Cook County Medical Examiner’s office


Mya’s mother, Ericka Barnes, could barely make it down the aisle by herself to see her daughter who had a tiara on her head and was dressed in pink. She had pink flowers and a Barbie doll laying by her side inside of a white casket trimmed in pink.

Mya’s father, along with her two brothers and sister, also broke down when they reached the viewing area that was surrounded by stuffed animals, including a Tweety Bird, and handwritten signs professing their love for the girl and sorrow for her death.









"I lost the most precious thing that anybody could have ever have. I believe that it takes a village to raise a child. I also
believe that it takes a village to find a criminal, so please help me find my baby's criminal," Lyons said Wednesday after an
afternoon prayer march, the second since Mya's nearly 60-pound body was found.

http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/the-unsolved-murder-of-little-mya-lyons/
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/mya_lyons_murder_one_year_later
Current "Alleged" Monster's Status as of March 9, 2011:

Chicago - Richard Lyon's, a 42-year-old hospital radiology technician, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to murder charges that he beat and stabbed his 9-year-old daughter Mya more than 30 times in the summer of 2008.

Lyons, was indicted Feb. 17 for the murder of Mya Lyons, a crime for which he was charged in January, more than two-and-a-half years after it happened, according to Cook County State's Attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton.

Prosecutors allege he struck Mya with a lockbox before stabbing her in his van 30 times. He then took her to the hospital in the same van and claimed “she may have been bitten by a dog,’’ prosecutors alleged at his Jan. 19 bond hearing.

Bond was denied for Lyons, a Northwestern Hospital radiology technician, who was also ordered held on $250,000 bond for a separate assault of a 15-year-old boy at his home last June. He allegedly touched the boy, who'd had his hair styled by Lyons’ wife, and asked him to “stay the night,” prosecutors allege.

On Wednesday, Lyons pleaded not guilty to both the murder and assault charges, Simonton said. He will appear for a status hearing April 13.

Lyons loudly proclaimed his innocence after telling police he found his lifeless daughter in a dark and weedy alley in the 8400 block of Gilbert Court on July 14, 2008.

But a pair of forensic investigators determined a blood spatter analysis of Lyons’ clothing and the van showed Mya was stabbed in the van and not the alley, according to prosecutors, who have given no motive for the slaying.

State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said after the bond hearing that it was a “heinous’’ crime because it was allegedly committed by the girl’s father. She said it took two-and-a-half years to make an arrest because prosecutors had to conduct a thorough investigation.

But Lyons’ attorney, Alan Blumenthal, said his client was innocent and blasted the weakness of the case. ‘‘This is all based on pure speculation and blood spatter patterns ... a soft science,’’ he said after the hearing.

Prosecutors said Mya and her older brother had come home at 11 p.m. on July 14 after visiting a neighbor. Lyons claimed the girl then went to her bedroom, but when he went to check on her she was missing, prosecutors said. However, no one from the family saw her leave the house and neighbors reported seeing the two come home and go to the backyard, Dillon said.

A few minutes later, neighbors told investigators, they saw Lyons in his van driving through the alley behind his home and then to the front of his house. He was wearing a white t-shirt, prosecutors said. Later, Lyons, now wearing a blue t-shirt, got back into the van and drove back into the alley, neighbors told authorities. Minutes later he drove back to the front of his home, his uncle got in the van, and the two drove to Jackson Park Hospital, prosecutors said.

At the hospital, the uncle took the girl’s body inside while Lyons waited outside because he was “too distraught,’’ prosecutors said. But at some point while at the hospital, Lyons was overheard saying the girl “may have been bitten by a dog,’’ prosecutors said. The girl was dead on arrival, prosecutors said.

Mya had 30 stab wounds to her stomach, neck and upper back, as well as multiple skull fractures and abrasions, prosecutors said. There was no evidence of a sexual assault.


http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/mya-lyons-richard-lyons-murder-pleads-not-guilty-court-20110309


Originally posted by Ms. Angela's Stuff at 3:44 PM

Angie's signing off for now...feel free to read me again! Until the Next time Stay Blessed and Humble. Peace!

Friday's Angel: SOMER RENEE THOMPSON

Friday, March 25, 2011

Monster’s Charges prior to Somer Thomson
Story copied from
http://jacksonville.com/community/clay/2010-03-09/story/jarred_harrell_faces_more_child_sex_counts

An additional charge of child molestation and 12 counts of using a child in a sexual performance were filed today against Jarred Mitchell Harrell,



the Clay County man also named as a person of interest in the Somer Thompson slaying, court records show.


The 13 new charges against Harrell, 24, were added to a case in which he was charged two weeks ago with molesting the same unidentified young girl and promoting a sexual performance involving the girl. There are now 26 counts against Harrell in that case, which investigators said did not involve Somer.

The case centers on accusations of molestation and graphic videotaping and photographing of a girl between the ages of 3 and 5 in a home once owned by Harrell's stepfather at 1152 Gano Ave. in Orange Park. The incidents occurred between May and November of 2008, records said. The images were found on a digital camera taken by investigators during a search of the Callahan home of Harrell's mother, records show.

The video and still images show a partially naked girl, known to Harrell's family, being asked to pose in a number of positions, court records show. Other images show Harrell using his hand to expose parts of the girl, the records said.

A family member identified the girl and Harrell's bedroom where the images were taken.

That case was brought on top of 29 counts of child pornography filed against Harrell Feb. 11. He was arrested in Meridian, Miss., on a warrant in the 29-count case, which stemmed from graphic images found by Harrell's former Orange Park roommates on his laptop and computer discs last summer.

Harrell is set to be arraigned in Clay County Circuit Court Wednesday. He is being represented by the public defender's office. Harrell has not responded to a Times-Union request for an interview.

Sheriff Rick Beseler named Harrell a person of interest in the Oct. 19 disappearance and slaying of Somer Thompson, 7, whose death remains unsolved. The announcement came after Harrell's Feb. 11 arrest on the child-pornography charges, but the sheriff has not said what evidence investigators have that may link him to the slaying.

SOMER THOMPSON

Story copied from

http://www.bloggernews.net/122714

Somer Renee Thompson was on her way home after school Monday afternoon with her twin brother and her older sister when after a fight she ran ahead of them running towards her home. This was the last time this 7 year old child was seen alive.


 
When her mother started wondering where she was when she knew she should have been home by then went out in the neighborhood looking for her daughter. After about 2 hours roaming through the neighborhood she saw a sheriff’s car passing by so she flagged them down to report that she couldn’t find her daughter which set the off search.

Two days later the body of a child was found in a landfill in Georgia that was later identified to be that of Somer Renee Thompson. Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said the legs of a child were sticking out with the rest of the body covered with garbage. Somer’s father, Samuel Thompson identified the body by a circular birthmark on the child’s shin.

Excerpts copied from


http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-10-18/story/house-where-police-say-somer-thompson-was-slain-haunts-orange-park-0
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Words of Diena Thompson

A year ago today, 7-year-old Somer Thompson vanished while walking home from her Orange Park elementary school. Somer was found dead in a Georgia landfill two days later. Jarred Harrell, who police say had an obsession with child pornography, has been charged in the slaying. Diena Thompson continues to battle with a wild array of emotions that have dominated her life since Oct. 19, 2009. Here are some excerpts from an hourlong interview Thompson gave the Times-Union last week:

“It’s your worst kind of rollercoaster. No matter how much you scream, cry, yell, give up, you can’t get nobody to turn the ride off and you’ve just got to hang on.”

“I’ve only seen him [Harrell] once. If I could have burned holes in him with my eyes ... I did try but it didn’t work.”

“He chose to murder my child, my 7-year-old, who hadn’t even lived yet, hadn’t even got to get her driver’s license or go to a dance or fall in love or have her first kiss. He had all of those.”

“He deserves death as far as I’m concerned. An eye for an eye.”

“I literally have pictures [of Somer] in various places. I lot of times if I’m sitting here by myself ... I talk to her. I look at her and just tell her how much I love her and how sorry I am this happened and her mommy is going to do what I can to make her proud. Because that’s all I want is for her to be proud of me.”

“I don’t necessarily go out in public a lot. I know people are curious about me and my story, but it’s hard when there are so many stares. I’d rather someone come up and ask me and talk to me than just to stare and point and whisper.”

“They [Somer’s siblings] don’t like to talk about it and I don’t force them to. There have been times I’ve been on the phone and I’ve been talking about Somer to my older sister and Samuel was laying his head on my lap and he looked up at me with tears in his eyes and said, 'Can we please not talk about that, it really makes me sad.’”

“Samuel probably has the hardest time with it because he was her twin. They were made together. It’s like salt and pepper. You can’t cook without both of them and now one of them has been taken away from me. I’m left to figure out how to make something without salt.”

“I go [to Somer’s gravesite] but I don’t go a lot because when I go I have this overwhelming urge to not want to leave and to literally just lay there with her. She shouldn’t be there. She shouldn’t be there.”

“In the end, my goal is for no one to forget. Let’s stay vigilant. We need to empower our children. We need to show them how to get away. They should teach their children to follow their gut instinct. If something doesn’t feel right, then it’s not right.”

The Monster

March 26, 2010 Story copied from


http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/sources-suspect-jarred-harrell-charged-connection-somer-thompson/story?id=10208882

Clay County police chief Rick Beseler was applauded earlier today when he announced the first-degree murder charge against Harrell from under a banner that read "Justice for Somer." He was also charged with sexual battery and lewd or lascivious molestation of a child younger than 12.

Calling Harrell a monster, Thompson said she was glad "someone is finally going to pay for this horrific crime."

Police said they believe Harrell, 24, encountered Somer as she walked by his house on her way home from school. Beseler said police have evidence that Harrell then assaulted Somer, killed her and disposed of her body. Two days after her death, Somer's body was found in a landfill in Georgia. She died, police said, by asphyxiation.

"I don't believe that this was anything more than a crime of opportunity," Beseler said.

Citing witness testimony, statements by Harrell and DNA samples, among other evidence, Beseler said investigators were "confident that Jarred Harrell committed this crime."

Beseler said Harrell's own statements gave investigators "the amount of probable cause [necessary] to make the arrest today."

Harrell was already in custody on a battery of unrelated child pornography and child molestation.

"He's just a monster and he got out that day," Diena Thompson said. "Why? Why would you do this?"

Harrell's attorney, Clay County public defender Kate Bedell, did not return requests for comment from ABCNews.com.

Harrell had been named a person of interest in the case in early February when he was arrested on 29 unrelated counts of child pornography. Additional unrelated pornography and child molestation charges followed, to which he pleaded not guilty.

Somer was last seen walking to her Orange Park, Fla., home from school with her older sister, Abby, and twin brother Samuel. Her body was found two days later in a Georgia landfill.

In August, two months before Somer went missing, Harrell's former roommates turned over to police a computer Harrell allegedly used that had sexual images and videos of children, according to the February arresting documents. The computer, which had a filed called "Toddler Insertion," held "a large amount of child erotica and also child pornography," the documents said.

Apparently responding to criticism that police had not picked up Harrell earlier, Beseler said the suspect "did not come onto anyone's radar screen as someone who would commit a crime like this.

"We did our job," he said.

Neighbors described Harrell as antisocial and withdrawn, and said they saw Thompson occasionally stop to pet a little white dog near his former home.

Harrell had moved to Mississippi after the girl's death and was extradited to Florida last month.

Beseler said that Harrell would be eligible for the death penalty should the state attorney choose to seek it.

Days before Harrell was named a person of interest, Somer's mother said the girl's killer should die.

"I want them to get the death penalty," she told ABC News Chief Law and Justice correspondent Chris Cuomo in February. "So in that sense I care, but other than that I don't, you know, I don't care."

Today, she said, "If they're asking for the death penalty, then they're asking for the death penalty.

"I have faith that a jury of 12 people, of his peers, are going to have no problem finding him guilty," she said.

Monster’s Legal Timeline:

• Oct. 19, 2009
Somer Thompson of Orange Park was last seen wearing a cranberry colored jumpsuit with pink-striped sleeves. Oct. 20, 2009
An Amber Alert was issued in Somer's disappearance.

• Oct. 21, 2009
The body of a small child was found in a Ga. landfill where authorities were looking for Somer Thompson.

• Oct. 22, 2009
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler confirms that the body is that of Somer Thompson.

• Feb. 11, 2010
Jarred Mitchell Harrell, then 24, is named as a person of interest in Somer's disappearance and slaying. He is held on $1 million bail in a Meridian, Miss. jail on 29 counts of child pornography.

• Feb. 18, 2010
Gov. Charlie Crist signs an extradition order that Jarred Harrell be returned from Mississippi to Clay county to face child porn charges.

• Feb. 23, 2010
Jarred Harrell is booked into the Clay County Jail after being transported from Mississippi by a three-vehicle police caravan.

• Feb. 24, 2010
Jarred Harrell is charged by Clay police with child molestation, as well as 12 additional counts of child pornography.

• March 10, 2010
Jarred Harrell pleads not guilty to charges of child pornography and child molestation.

• March 26, 2010
Jarred Harrell is formally charged with the murder of Somer Thompson, based on DNA matches and interviews with Clay police.

• April 1, 2010
State Attorney Angela Corey announces that she will seek the death penalty against Jarred Harrell in the rape and asphyxiation of 7-year-old Somer Renee Thompson.

• April 8, 2010
Jarred Harrell pleads not guilty to Somer Thompson's murder.

Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-10-19/story/hundreds-gather-orange-park-somer-thompson-vigil#ixzz1HePJmA5q

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Friday's Angel: CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL BARRIOS, JR

Friday, March 18, 2011

We've all seen sad movies that make us shed tears and some movies make us sob for awhile. There are two movies that no matter how many times I watch them I cry for a long time. I cry to the point I have to be alone and remove myself from the room if others are with me. You may not understand why these two movies affect me so much and to be honest I don’t either but they just do and they are “Pearl Harbor” and “Powder”. There are also stories of children being abused or killed that we read every day and many of us shake our head in bewilderment and wonder how can anyone do that to a child, or think of all the things you want to happen to these monsters. You always feel bad, you may shed tears and you may be affected for days or life.

There is one child, his murder and his story that affects me more deeply than all the others. I’ve learned not to read his story or visit his website during working hours because I will have to retreat to the bathroom for awhile and return with red and puffy eyes and I know my boss wonders what is wrong with me? I think the reason this child affects me so much, and God I don’t even like to think about it but, he reminds me of my J. Back in 2007 when he was murdered J was only a few months old but I saw the resemblance and knew J would grow up to look like this little boy. When I heard how he threatened his killers to stop or he would tell his Grandmom that made me even sadder because it sounds like something J would do. I think about this little boy often and I am sure he was loved by family and friends but the last two hours of life he endured at the hands of 3 monsters is repulsive and I can imagine his fear and the physical pain he went through from being raped and then strangled to death with the hand of 2 men around his tiny neck. Please read his story and visit his website from time to time.

Thanks,

CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL BARRIOS, JR

Story copied from
http://pysih.com/2008/11/16/david-edenfield-george-edenfield-and-peggy-edenfield/

This is 33 year old George Edenfield, and these are his parents, 58 year old Peggy and 59 year old David. Both David and George have a history of being sex offenders- A family that preys together.
In 1993, David Edenfield was arrested for committing incest against an adult family member that was not his son and entered a guilty plea in 1994. For this offense, David received 10 years probation. In 1997, George Edenfield entered a guilty plea following an arrest for the molestation of two boys aged 7 and 9. For these offenses, George received 10 years probation and was required to register as a sex offender.

In 2007, George appeared in court on charges that he’d violated his probation by refusing to move from a residence located directly across the street from Brunswick, GA‘s Orange Park, a popular playground. Although he’d lived there for 9 years and pleaded guilty, Glynn County DA Stephen Kelley and Judge Stephen Scarlett approved a plea allowing George to receive probation instead of time in prison. The date of this sentence - March 5.

Christopher Michael Barrios, Jr. was a bright, loving 6 year old boy who had recently started kindergarten. He took pleasure in time spent with his family, his large collection of superhero toys, and Jimmy, the stray cat he’d adopted. On the afternoon of March 8, 2007, Christopher happily stepped off his school bus and greeted his stepmother. Together, they walked over to Christopher’s grandmother’s home, where Christopher was dropped off to play.

George had watched Christopher disembark his bus; it was at that time that George says the Devil told him to kill Christopher. According to Paula Anderson, Christopher’s stepmother, Christopher came back home when his grandmother, Sue Rodriguez, needed to run some errands. When Paula saw Sue’s truck back at her home, she allowed Christopher to go back over and visit. This would be the last time Paula ever saw the cherished little boy.

As Christopher walked home that evening, he was approached by George, who lured the child into his house of horrors with the promise of video games. Christopher excitedly agreed; the horrors that awaited him too savage for a 6 year old little boy’s mind to know or understand.

After arriving at the Edenfield residence, Christopher was brutally and horrifically attacked by George and David. Standing about 3’6 and weighed about 65 lbs, the child didn’t stand a chance of defending himself against the Edenfield men. Both George and David took turns sodomizing and forcing the child to perform oral sex as Peggy watched and masturbated. When they had finished using the child for their sadistic purposes, the men used clothing to clean semen from their bodies, and both George and David (according to a statement given by Peggy) choked the poor boy to death, coldly ignoring him as he begged them to stop and cried that they were hurting him.

Next, Peggy attempted to wash fingerprints from Christopher’s neck using a pot of water and soap and the family wrapped the child in plastic trash bags. A “friend” of the family, Donald Dale, was enlisted in the disposal of Christopher’s body.

When Christopher failed to arrive home by 6 p.m., Paula went over to Sue’s house to walk him back home for dinner. She arrived to find no one home, so she searched the neighborhood, checking all the places the neighborhood kids liked to play and knocking on doors. A few neighbors joined in the search, but when that failed to produce the child, Paula called Christopher’s father Mike at work.

Mike arrived home around 7:30 and called the police, who arrived shortly after 8. Christopher was officially reported missing about 8:15 that evening. The search for the child that ultimately included helicopters, ATV’s, search dogs, and members of the National Guard in addition to police and volunteer searchers on foot began at 8:30.

Reports show that during the initial search of the area by local law enforcement, a toy belonging to Christopher was found in the yard of the Edenfield’s home; this, along with the fact that the Edenfields were observed repeatedly peeking out the windows, aroused police suspicions and Investigator William Daras went over to ask some questions. A confession was obtained that night from George, but he refused to tell where Christopher’s body was for fear or being taken to jail.

Although George was arrested the next day, he, his parents and Donald Dale continued to mislead police on Christopher’s whereabouts for a week. Christopher’s body was eventually found on March 15, 2007 by a park ranger after the area of focus was expanded. Although Peggy gave several locations where Christopher’s body could be found and repeatedly told police that he was buried within a few hundred feet of her home, the child’s remains were actually located 2-3 miles away on the side of the road in a black trash bag buzzing with insects.

Beloved Christopher had been used then tossed aside like a piece of garbage by a family of demons that had no regard for the fact that he was someone’s baby, someone’s friend, he was loved, and he was missed. Can you imagine the horror that little boy felt during his last moments on earth? Can you imagine what his parents felt every night he was not home to tuck into his bed and kiss goodnight? Can you even fathom what they felt when they were told that their baby boy was never coming home, or how it hurt to be robbed of the chance to view him for the final time because during the week the Edenfields and Dale were playing games with the police, Christopher’s body was deteriorating beyond what the family would recognize as their child?

TRIAL OF DAVID EDENFIELD:

Pre-TrialTrialSentence (Updated: 10.06.09 9 p.m. PST)View Sources

Jamie Downs, medical examiner for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab in Savanna testified as to Christopher’s injuries and cause and manner of death.

Downs explained that Christopher was killed by someone who choked off his supply of oxygen by crushing his windpipe, voice box and carotid artery.

“The most likely means this was done was neck compression, be it by an arm around from the sides in a sleeper choke hold, by a towel around the neck or by placing the palms of the hands on opposite sides of the neck and compressing inward,” Downs testified.

Downs said he found a human bite mark on Christopher’s back. There also were bruises and other trauma injuries to the boy’s throat, genitals and legs consistent with being raped and sodomized, he testified.

“The injuries were sustained while he was still alive,” Downs testified.
http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2009-10-02/story/edenfield_calmly_says_killing_6_year_old_christopher_barrios_was_excit

BRUNSWICK - Jurors watched intensely Thursday the rest of a DVD recording of David Edenfield confessing that he sexually assaulted then choked 6-year-old Christopher Michael Barrios Jr. to death.

On the recording, Edenfield is seen calmly describing the killing as exciting and saying he acted instinctively to kill the boy.

As in Wednesday's opening of his death penalty murder trial, Edenfield, 61, showed no emotion as he watched himself dispassionately describe how he and his 34-year-old son, George Edenfield, killed the kindergartner who had begged them to stop. The boy was killed after he threatened to tell his father and grandmother the Edenfields had molested him, David Edenfield told a Glynn County police detective during the 21/2-hour interview.

Prosecutors played another shorter DVD of an interview: Edenfield said he put his hands on top of George's and together they choked the boy, he said on the recording.

"I guess it was just instinct ... I just wanted to see what it felt like to choke somebody," said Edenfield, who initially denied squeezing the boy's neck.

After Christopher was dead, Edenfield said he, George and Peggy Edenfield sexually gratified themselves.

"Christopher was dead. I guess it excited all of us," Edenfield said.

Edenfield said he didn't know how the boy got into their home, but George had him in his bedroom, where he stripped off his clothes before sexually assaulting him.

Kelley played the first hour of the recording Wednesday.

Some of the jurors grimaced Thursday morning as they listened to Edenfield detail in crude, sexually explicit language the March 8, 2007, slaying he first blamed on his son. As he was being sexually assaulted, the boy cried and begged them to stop, which prompted George to say they would have to kill him, David Edenfield said.

"Christopher was crying, not screaming, just kind of scared. He was saying: 'No. Stop. Stop. Stop' while George put his hands around his throat and choked him," Edenfield said.

The boy struggled and tried to push George's hands away. George grabbed and held the boy's hands behind his back so he couldn't fight or escape while being sodomized then strangled, Edenfield said.

MONSTER’S CURRENT STATUS:
http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-10-29/story/judge-denies-new-trial-edenfield-barrios-slaying

David Edenfield, 61, was the first of three family members to stand trial in the kindergarten student's slaying. Last October, the jury that found him guilty of malice murder and seven other charges imposed the death penalty.
http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-08-03/story/judge-commits-george-edenfield-mental-hospital-barrios-slaying

BRUNSWICK - Convicted child molester George Edenfield won't stand trial anytime soon in the sexual abuse slaying of 6-year-old Christopher Michael Barrios Jr. nearly four years ago.

Superior Court Judge Stephen Scarlett ruled Edenfield was mentally incompetent Tuesday and ordered him committed to a state mental hospital for further evaluation at the behest of prosecutors and defense lawyers.

The lawyers cited recent evaluations by state and defense psychologists, who agreed that Edenfield has a diminished mental capacity and is unable to assist in his own defense.

'You never get over it'

Christopher's grandmother, Sue Rodriguez, left the courthouse disgusted after the hearing.

"He ain't crazy ... He's smart as a darned whip. He's got them all fooled. He's putting on a good show," Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez said three years and five months have passed since Christopher was abducted, molested and killed.

"As time goes on, you learn to live with it but you never get over it," she said.

No trial date has been set for Peggy Edenfield, 58. She will not face the death penalty because she testified against her husband, and agreed to testify against her son.

Donald Dale was charged with concealing the death of another person, obstruction of justice and making false statements. In June, 2008 Dale accepted a deal which allowed him to spend 5 years in a state mental health facility in exchange for a guilty plea on a lesser charge of lying to police. Judge Scarlett and DA Kelley agreed to this plea after the state presented findings that Dale has an I.Q. of 60, classifying him as mentally retarded, which many find ironic considering the fact that he wasn’t too retarded to dump Christopher’s body and lie to the police in an attempt to cover his tracks.
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Originally posted by Ms. Angela's Stuff at 11:35 AM

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Do You Know This Type of Mary?

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

In the movie Precious Mo'Nique portrayed Mary; a Mother who knowingly, ignorantly and selfishly allowed her daughter to be raped by her husband for years. Do you know anyone like Mary? Do you think people like Mary exist? Are you Mary?

I was recently heartsick when I found out a childhood friend is currently living with her husband who has sexually abused her children. I know that people like Mary exist but I was so deeply disappointed to find out she is Mary? I still can not fathom what goes on in the mind of someone who is capable of such betrayal and indecency? How can a Mother lay in the same bed with a monster, how can she tolerate his touch or even look into his eyes without thinking, imagining and seeing what he has done to her child(ren)? I wish I could understand this evil and sickness that allows a woman to overlook her child being raped, molested, threatened and frightened not just once but multiple times that last for years in many cases. Is the Mother suffering from an extreme case of denial, mental illness or selfishness?

My opinion is these types of Mary’s are suffering from selfishness and an extreme case of low self-esteem. Their need to be loved by a man even in its sickest form outweighs their child screams for help, scars, fears or safety. These types of Mary’s see this monster as their life. God forbid they have to go without a man. God forbid they have to be totally independent and sacrifice to provide for their own children. A very small part of me wants to pity these Mary’s because I think they must really hate themselves deep down or maybe they were abused and don’t know any other way. I’m sympathetic to the fact that not everyone handles trauma and abuse in the same manner. Some victims of abuse subconsciously seek out abusers because they feel they don’t deserve better and subconsciously they don’t see their own child's worth because they came from them. This could be the reason they can so easily look away or do nothing. These types of Mary’s will adapt coping skills of denial and fantasy just to excuse these monsters. In their twisted minds they minimize what is happening to their child(ren). They say things like “he is having sex with my daughter” which is not the case; he is raping your daughter. Anytime a man is with a child it is not sex but rape; don’t minimize it. Just because the child was too afraid to scream or fight back or just because they were manipulated into keeping it a secret doesn’t lessen what it really is; which is rape. These types of Mary’s will blame their daughters for seducing their husbands, they resort to name calling and shaming the child into secrecy so their monster won’t be found out. Can you imagine walking into a room and catching your husband raping your 13 year old daughter and your first instinct is to attack your child for being a slut? What type of Mother does that? Can you imagine your 8 year old child telling you the monster keeps touching her and you may argue and put him out but never really do anything to protect your own child? What type of Mother does that?

These Mary’s don’t realize the damage they have inflicted on their own children. It’s bad enough to be raped and abused but to go to your Mother and have the courage to tell; in spite of the fear of not being believed or what the monster may do to you and your Mother does nothing to protect you is a betrayal far worse than the abuse. It leaves a child to feel that they must be NOTHING. If the one person in the world who is supposed to think you’re somebody allows you to be abused repeatedly; then you must deserve it? So the child grows up with excellent coping skills masked through years of denial. The mother/child relationship continues and what is going on in the household is like the elephant in the room; never talked about. The Mother shouldn’t be surprised though when one day the child grows up and comes to accept the reality of what is and what was allowed to occur and despises her own Mother.

I previously said I pity these women a little until I think about other victims of sexual abuse who may have issues with self and struggle with insecurities but they would NEVER EVER allow another to knowingly abuse their children. What makes one victim an enabler of the monster and another a raging protector of her children? I say it’s all about choice and at the end of the day we know the demons we are facing. I believe when it comes to your children and their safety your personal demons have to take a back seat; your child comes first. If you are one of these types of Mary’s; you and your monster deserve to be in a prison cell happily ever after for eternity. You’ve already sacrificed your children for him; why not your life?

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"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."
~ Maya Angelou

"The noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece or who can write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages long after painting shall have faded, and books and statues shall have been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give."
~ David O. McKay

"The mother, more than any other, affects the moral and spiritual part of the children's character. She is their constant companion and teacher in formative years. The child is ever imitating and assimilating the mother's nature. It is only in after life that men gaze backward and behold how a mother's hand and heart of love molded their young lives and shaped their destiny."
~ E.W. Caswell


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