This is just SICK! I'm so DAMN tired of child molesters and

[Blue_Roses]

a "system" that is suppose to prosecute them. This fucking pervert and his family had a history of molesting. In fact, this guy was convicted in 1997 and only received PROBATION. PROBATION! WTF? This idiot should have been put away for life at that time. I say it's time to declare war on these fucked up neanderthals.

This story is so heart-breaking. Poor child:cry:
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Indictment: Molester, dad abused boy while mom watched
POSTED: 8:33 a.m. EDT, March 22, 2007

, Georgia (AP) -- A convicted child molester and his father took turns sexually assaulting a 6-year-old boy while the molester's mother watched, then they choked the boy to death, according to an indictment issued Wednesday.

The indictment charges all three family members with murder and child molestation in the slaying of young Christopher Michael Barrios, whose body was found last Thursday inside a trash bag dumped by a roadside.

District Attorney Stephen D. Kelley said he will seek the death penalty against 32-year-old George David Edenfield, who has a prior child molestation conviction from 1997, and his parents, David and Peggy Edenfield.

"This is one of the most horrific crimes that I have seen in 21 years of prosecutions," Kelley said.

Christopher went missing for a week before police found his body about three miles from his trailer park home outside Brunswick, a Georgia port city 60 miles south of Savannah. The suspects lived in a mobile home across the street from the boy's grandmother.


more...





http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/22/missing.boy.ap/index.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Oh god, first the 84 yr old molester and now this *cry*

[blondeatlast]

2. Oh, God. Oh dear God. And we pay child welfare workers pitifully small wages.

Look at that beautiful face, those eyes, that smile. Gone forever.

I'm gonna hug my son now (wipes tears away).

There are no more words. That smile is gone forever...

[helderheid]

3. .

:cry: :puke: :mad: :cry:

[lazer47]

4. I am a liberal, however

in some cases I believe in execution for certain crimes,, this is one of those times and cases that I believe it would be called for.

[Blue_Roses]

5. put him in the general population and let them

fuck him up--and they will. I have no sympathy for this piece of trash. I am livid with how our justice system puts people away for pot and not for these horrendous acts. It makes no fucking sense.

[Jonathan50]

39. You have to realize that smoking pot is a crime against the state..

Whereas torturing, molesting and then strangling an innocent child is merely a crime against an individual.

A child molester can get Federal educational benefits when he has served his time...

Get busted with one seed? No Federal benefits for you..

[blondeatlast]

6. I don't believe in the death penalty, but cases like this give me pause. They dumped

that darling boy's body in a trash bag by the side of the road. It's difficult to believe they can be reformed after that.

As long as those responsible never see the outside of prison walls, I'll be fine with that much.

[cali]

7. Oh shit.

There is something particularly horrendous about this case. That the father and son took turns while Mom watched is beyond comprehension. I know they're human, but I can't see them as anything but monsters. Whatever befalls them, I will have not a second of pity.

[Bake]

31. Mom not only watched, she masturbated while watching.

According to MSNBC this morning.

Sick sick sick. I hope they fry. Both now and later.

Bake

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. The justice system failed

there is no way that there should ever be probation for sexual molestation. These three creatures need to be put in solitary confinement for the rest of their lives.

[RebelOne]

9. No, not in solitary confinement. Just put them in the prison population.

Even hardened criminals do not take kindly to child molesters. The inmates will make short work of them.

[kineneb]

33. life, in general population

more and longer punishment then just being executed by the state. Child molesters are the bottom rung among the prison population.

Death is too good for them.

[hang a left]

38. I said this a few days ago and I shall repeat it here.

They should be left alone with the family and friends of the victim in a warehouse for a few hours. Then they should be shipped to the Supermax forever and throw away the key.

[waiting for hope]

10. It's all over - just in MY ZIP CODE -

There are 28 registered offenders. Out of those 28, these are the "lucky ones":

INDECENT LIBERTY MINOR
PROBATION: 36M
PROBATION: 10Y
PROBATION: 36M
PROBATION: 36M
PROBATION: 36M
PROBATION: 36M
PROBATION: 36M
PROBATION: 36M
PROBATION: 1Y9M
PROBATION: 18M
PROBATION: 99Y


SEX EXPLOIT MINOR 2ND DEGREE
PROBATION: 5Y

So almost half of those having to register - they only got probation...Indecent Liberty with a Minor (and no, I don't believe it was with girls 16 or 17 years old, 99% of the men where over 50) anyway you look at it is heinous and deserves jail time. I have never believe that sex crimes have ever been prosecuted fully and punished adequately.

[Horse with no Name]

11. I hate to say this

but the mugshots of those 3 across the television screen made my skin crawl.
They looked like they were extras in the movie "Deliverance". :scared:

[Blue_Roses]

12. didn't they though...

I think my blood literally started to boil. It's horrible...

[Czolgosz]

13. How do you feel about a Repub political appointee US Attorney who won't investigate child rape?

Here in Texas, the political appointees in the US Attorney's office dropped the indictment in connection with the Repub appointee failure of oversight at the Texas Youth Commission where minors in state custody were raped.

Department of Justice staffers prepared a federal indictment in the child sex abuse scandal but that indictment was pulled by officials up the "chain of command."

Texas Ranger Brian Burzynski explained "I decided to file the case federally. An Assistant US Attorney out of San Antonio and one out of Washington D.C. came down and interviewed the victims. Following that," the Department of Justice attorneys "prepared an indictment but had to pass it up their chain of command for approval to prosecute. In the end, they didn’t get that approval," and here is a link to the actual email he sent setting out the sickening background:

http://www.lonestarproject.net/files/Burzynskiemail.pdf

The key fact is that the indictment was abandoned because approval from "up their chain of command" was denied.

The political hack US Attorney explained that he dropped the indictment because "a felony charge under 18 U.S.C section 242 can also be predicated on the commission of 'aggravated sexual abuse' or the attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse. The offense of aggravated sexual abuse is proven with evidence that the perpetrator knowingly caused his victim to engage in a sexual act...by using force against the victim.... Although none of the victims admit that they consented to the sexual contact, none resisted or voiced any objection to the conduct."

Here is the link to the crazy and offensive letter where the hack Repub US Attorney declined to indict the child molesters in the Repub scandal (you will not believe this outrageous letter!):

http://www.lonestarproject.net/files/DOJTYC.pdf

This child sex abuse scandal at state facilities would have politically crushed Repub Texas Governor Rick Perry who appointed the Repubs who failed in their oversight of these at-risk Texas kids.

This case illustrates why US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales must be fired for allowing partisan political priorities to trump legal and policy considerations at the Department of Justice!

PLEASE HELP GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT THIS SCANDALOUS SEXUAL ABUSE OF TEXAS CHILDREN COVERED UP DUE TO REPUB PARTISAN US ATTORNEY APPOINTMENTS!

[Blue_Roses]

16. I live in Texas

what can I do? I'm so sick of this. I just moved here 7 months ago so I had no idea this was going on.

[Czolgosz]

22. Get the word out, letters to the editor, call your state representative and demand an investigation

Katrina Cannon, a mother of a child in a Texas Youth Commission facility, has asked the Texas Legislature for a full investigation and a special prosecutor. Her plea for help has resulted in some proposed legislation:

HB 2340 would place the Texas Youth Commission into a conservatorship against Gov. Perry's cover-up wishes;

HB 3521 would establish an office of an inspector general and require that parents and youth be notified of their rights and it would ban sexual assault criminals from taking jobs within TYC facilities; unfortunately, it would authorize the useless Texas Attorney General to investigate claims of abuse;

HB 2335 would require a manageable student-to-guard ratio to reduce abuse, create an ombudsman to investigate abuse claims, and require that Texas Rangers do monthly spot checks on all facilities.

Call your state representatives and demand support for these bills!

Here is a discussion of the Repub efforts to figh this legislation: http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3129

[Horse with no Name]

23. Look at this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=454313&mesg_id=472957

[izzie]

14. I believe they have been around since history was first put on

paper. I do not think we can do much more about it but put them in jail for a number of years. Unless it is made a capital crime. Was it so well underground in my age or what? Every kid I knew knew the houses never to go in or the cars not to go in. What is up? Is it that no one knows who lives near them or what? Hell I was a terror as a kid but knew right from wrong people even then and I was no brain. Some one must have got me to that stage but I do not recall who. Maybe it is parents not teaching their kids at home? I just do not understand why all the problem. And one can not stand over a child. He has to be taught right and wrong and have the guts to stand up for what he has learned. Stay away from these nut cases.

[Blue_Roses]

17. but what about the ones who

snatch them up out of their yard--or better yet their OWN BEDROOM? It's not the child's fault! It's a sad day when we start blaming the children for not doing enough to keep from getting abducted.

[izzie]

34. Yes that is really hard to understand.

I read about Polly and what got me is she did not run away. Not that I blame her as she was out in the woods but I am willing to bet most kids would have run. I just do not know where these creeps come from and to walk into your house at that. That man who took Polly I read only went after women not children but still what do you do with some one like that? I would say he should be kept in prison for the rest of his life but I have never been able to reason out the problem of a man who serves his time and than may come out of prison. Can we keep a man in jail for something he may do? I can not reason this out. It would lead to problems as who is going to make the rules in what laws should be classed as crimes that never let you out? Our Puritan of old did things like that. Sex before you marry? Sex with some some one not your partner? Teen-age sex? Sex for pay? Who would that mean, the man or women? I have no problems with jail for rape if it is really rape. I just love to add the 'but' at the end of a statement.

[hang a left]

40. izzie

the boy was six. Either in kindergarden or first grade. Mind you I would never have allowed my boys at that age to be outside unattended. You just don't know the circumstances of the abduction.

[hedgehog]

15. Hey - this is a case where everyone needs to stand back and take a deep breath.

Don't forget, a lot of people were ready to lynch the lacrosse team. Th DA needs to be very careful to ensure that the right people are under arrest and that if so, the story of what happened is accurate and not a result of improper interrogation practices. If they're guilty, lock them up and throw away the key. Just remember that some of the worst miscarriages of justice involve some of the worst crimes.

Once again, if we tolerate prisons in which the convicts mete out "justice", we're tolerating torture.

[Blue_Roses]

18. Oh, for the love of God.

They admitted to it. They led police to the body. There is a history of pedaphila and molestation in their family. No, I'm tired of the "let's step back and take a breath" approach. This poor child didn't have a chance. As far as I'm concerned, these people are trash.

Okay, yes, I do need to take a breath 'cause I feel my blood pressure going up.

[Stand and Fight]

20. Fuck that! They confessed!

Get it! They fucking admitted to being involved. Period.

[blondeatlast]

32. And led investigators to the body. nt

[TX-RAT]

25. stand back and grab a hammer!

[blondeatlast]

26. They confessed, for starters--and furthermore, whoever did it stuffed that

boy in a trash bag and left it by the side of the road.

That's a helpless child abused and murdered by his own family. If by some chance someone else did it (motive and opportunity kind of make that hard to believe), then I hope they get justice.

The motive and opportunity are clearly with the family. And that little boy is dead--and he died a horrible, violent death besides. Forgive me (or hell- I don't care--don't) if I can't get too worked up over the family being charged.

[NorthernSpy]

35. the suspects are NOT relatives of the victim...

That's a helpless child abused and murdered by his own family. If by some chance someone else did it (motive and opportunity kind of make that hard to believe), then I hope they get justice.

The boy was NOT killed by his own family. The Edenfields are not related to Christopher Barrios. The "mother" and "father" of the article are actually the mother and father of convicted molester George Edenfield. They are mentioned because all three Edenfields participated in the murder, and they enlisted the aid of a family friend to help dispose of the body.

None of Chistopher Barrios' own family were involved in this.


(Just clearing that up...)

[cali]

27. Ludicrous comparison.

They've confessed. I believe they led the cops to the body. To hell with defending these sick bastards.

[Stand and Fight]

19. These are the faces of monsters, people....

http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2007/03/21/13/224-

[autorank]

21. There are organizations out there that deliberately minimize claims of child abuse.

They claim that the children have "false memories" or that the accusing parent is displaying
"parental alienation syndrome" or some other trumped up bull shit theory.

The Columbia School of Journalism did a study and found that media coverage was heavily focused on the rare phenomenon of 'recovered memories'for years while not covering the real rate or impact of child sexual abuse. The media is really pathetic.

Columbia Journalism Review

http://archives.cjr.org/year/97/4/memory.asp
July/August 1997 | Contents

U-Turn on Memory Lane

by Mike Stanton
Stanton heads the investigative team at The Providence Journal-Bulletin, where he shared a 1994 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He wrote a 1995 series on Professor Ross E. Cheit of Brown University, whose recovered memory of childhood abuse drew national attention. Stanton studied recovered memory last year on a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.

Pamela Freyd seems more like the mother and grandmother she is than a revolutionary. But as a founder of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, she has in fact helped revolutionize the way the press and the public view one of the angriest debates in America -- whether an adult can suddenly remember long-forgotten childhood abuse.

The subject of memory has always been a slippery one for journalists. While there is a documented body of knowledge showing that people can forget horrific events and recall them years later, memory is not an exact science like nuclear physics, but rather an emotional arena of violent disagreement.

Yet in the 1980s and early '90s, repressed memories were all the rage among reporters and talk-show hosts as the media uncritically focused on accounts of abuse so dramatic and terrible that they must have been true. Some, it eventually became clear, were exaggerations or fabrications.

Now, thanks largely to the efforts of the Philadelphia-based False Memory Syndrome Foundation, the pendulum has swung equally far in the other direction. Formed as a support group for accused parents, the foundation has sought primarily to persuade the media of the dangers of psychotherapy in creating "false memories." Indeed, today there is open skepticism and outright hostility toward the idea that lost memory can be recovered. But often there has been no more hard-news reporting than before, leaving the issue essentially unexplicated in the press.

[Little Wing]

24. Strap them to a pole and burn all three of them in public

[BeHereNow]

37. I'm down with that.

This story absolutely terrifies me.
To think that such monsters live among us.

What a beautiful child he was.
How could they do such things to such an innocent baby?

BHN:cry: :cry: :cry:

[verse18]

28. I regularly evaluate sexual perpetrators

who get off SCOT FREE. I'm actively working on two cases right now regarding rape and incest, and both of these men are still walking around free and there are no plans to prosecute them. The best we can do for the children involved is to force their abusers to pay for their treatment through funds from victim's assistance.

[blondeatlast]

30. But in this case, the victim can't do that. It's up to society.

:scared:

[Eurobabe]

29. No quarter. Fry them. n/t

[Madspirit]

36. There are people here

If they hadn't killed this poor child there are people here who would be defending this as a "teaching" method. I kid you not. Go into the past week or two and check the post about the little nine year old girl who's parents had sex and masturbated in front of her. People are sick assholes and they are everywhere. It makes me puke.
Lee

[Jonathan50]

41. Not the same thing at all..

And I advocate locking these people up for life..

I'm against the death penalty in all cases.

[Madspirit]

42. I'm totally opposed to the death penalty. n/t