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March 21, 2007
Family -- Ma, Pa, Son -- All Arrested For Molesting, Murdering 6 Year Old Boy
I don't like the "rope, tree, some assembly required" joke, but then, I don't really mean it as a joke.
Neither does the prosecutor:
Glynn County District Attorney Stephen D. Kelley said he will seek the death penalty against 32-year-old George Edenfield, who has a prior child molestation conviction from 1997, and his parents, David and Peggy Edenfield. "This is one of the most horriffic crimes that I have seen in 21 years of prosecutions," Kelley said.
I like that: Kill them all. Wipe out this defective gene before it can propagate new evil.
The indictment does not say which of three caused the boy's death.
It also claims George Edenfield and his 58-year-old father sodomized the boy and forced him to perform oral sex while Peggy Edenfield watched and masturbated.
"They deserve the worst, for them to torture my son like that, every last one of them," said Mike Barrios, the slain boy's father.
I realize I may be jumping to conclusions here -- the McMartin Family "molestation" fiasco and all those -- but we know for a fact we're not merely dealing with a child's imaginations here. We have a corpse on our hands. At the very least we know we actually are dealing with a murder, not a preschoolers' fantasies about playing the "naked movie star game" with Chuck Norris.*
* If you've never seen the James Woods made-for-HBO movie Indictment, you should. Great, great movie. After seven years of prosecutorial abuse that would make even Mike Nifong blush, an entire family accused of molestation (from kids to grandma!) was finally cleared of wrongdoing.
All anyone had to do was look at what "abuse" the kids were alleging:
Some of the children's accusations were bizarre and, at times, defied the laws of physics. Some alleged that, in addition to having been sexually abused, they saw witches fly, traveled in a hot-air balloon, and were taken in one case through secret underground tunnels, which were sought by investigators but never found. Ray Buckey was described as having beaten a giraffe to death with a baseball bat in front of the children. When shown a series of photographs by police, one child identified actor Chuck Norris as one of the abusers.[1] There were claims of orgies at car washes and airports, and of children being flushed down toilets to secret rooms where they would be abused, then cleaned up and presented back to their unsuspecting parents. Some children said they were made to play a game called "Naked Movie Star" in which they were photographed nude.