Indictment: Molester, dad abused boy while mom watched

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Indictment: Molester, dad abused boy while mom watched

POSTED: 8:33 a.m. EDT, March 22, 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 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.

The indictment contains grim details about the case that police and
prosecutors had not previously revealed. It says Christopher died from
asphyxiation March 8 -- the day he was reported missing -- after the
suspects choked him while "ignoring his complaints that they were
hurting him." The indictment does not say which of three caused the
boy's death. (Watch how three shovels helped police )

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.

A friend of the Edenfield family, Donald Dale, was indicted on charges
of concealing a death and tampering with evidence. Kelley said Dale
did not become involved until after Christopher had been killed.

Nathan Williams, the attorney for 57-year-old Peggy Edenfield,
declined to comment Wednesday. Attorneys for George and David
Edenfield did not immediately return phone calls.

Glynn County police arrested the Edenfields four days after the child
vanished while playing alone outside. Police Chief Matt Doering said
all three suspects confessed to playing roles in the boy's abduction.

Police have said Dale admitted to investigators he helped the
Edenfields dispose of Christopher's body.

Other charges against the Edenfields include false imprisonment,
cruelty to children and enticing a child for indecent purposes.

Police have described George David Edenfield as mentally slow, but not
retarded and capable of understanding right from wrong.

Ironically, the Edenfields moved into the trailer park where
Christopher lived last year because of a Georgia law intended to keep
child molesters away from children. Sheriffs' deputies told George
Edenfield in September that he had to leave his home near downtown
Brunswick because it was too close to a playground. Georgia law
prohibits registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of
schools and other places that draw children.

His family went to live in the trailer park in October after George
Edenfield was arrested for failing to move as ordered. He pleaded
guilty to the charge and was sentenced to probation March 5, three
days before Christopher disappeared.

George Edenfield was required to register as a sex offender after he
pleaded guilty in 1997 to molesting two boys, ages 7 and 9.
Prosecutors said he rubbed his clothed body "in a sexual manner"
against the boys, who also were fully dressed. He was sentenced then
to 10 years on probation.

His father, David Edenfield, pleaded guilty to incest in 1994. He was
accused of having sex with an adult relative who was not his son.

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