Christopher Barrios Murder
David Edenfield Trial
Georgia
Christopher Michael Barrios Jr., 6, was last seen March 8, 2007 in his Glynn County neighborhood playing on a swing set near his grandmother's home around 6:15 p.m. When he was not home just after 8 p.m., police were called.
His disappearance prompted a massive search, which ended when his body was found wrapped in trash bags and dumped near some woods. He had been assaulted, raped and killed, as the wife, and mother of the accused rapists and murderers watched.
George Edenfield (right), one of the accused, was a registered sex offender who had just been to court on March 5th, three days before the murder, for violating his parole. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to probation instead of being sent to jail.
David Edenfield, George's father and also accused of the crimes, had a sex offense against him for incest of a grown female family member.
In an indictment that was issued March 21, 2007 George Edenfield and his 58-year-old father sodomized the boy and forced him to perform oral sex while Peggy Edenfield watched and masturbated. (Ewwwwww!)
In an agreement approved by the victim's family, prosecutors will spare Peggy Edenfield's life to bolster their case against her husband, David Edenfield, 58, and their son, George Edenfield, 31, in the abduction and killing of the Glynn County kindergarten student, District Attorney Stephen Kelley said.
David Edenfield will be the first to be tried for this heinous crime. His trial was to start in April of 2009, but has been delayed due to a lack of funding.
Jury selection will begin Sept. 8, tentatively in Hazlehurst, and testimony will begin Sept. 21, 2009, at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Superior Court Judge Stephen Scarlett ruled in a order filed March 11, 2009.
David, Peggy and George Edenfield Charges:
1.Malice murder - punishable by death, life without parole or life with eligibility for parole
2.Kidnapping with bodily injury - punishable by death, or 25 years to life in prison
3.Enticing a child for indecent purposes - punishable by 10 to 30 years in prison
4.False imprisonment - punishable by 1 to 10 years in prison
5.First-degree cruelty to children - punishable by 5 to 20 years in prison
6.Child molestation - punishable by 5 to 20 years in prison
7.Concealing the death of another person - punishable by 1 to 10 years in prison
8.Tampering with evidence - punishable by 1 to 10 years in prison
George and David Edenfield Additional Indictments:
1.Aggravated child molestation, two counts - punishable by 25 years to life on each count
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08-19-09
Trial Delayed
A new delay is pushing back the death-penalty trial of a man charged with sexual assault and murder in the 2007 slaying of a 6-year-old Brunswick boy, Christopher Barrios.
Superior Court Judge Stephen Scarlett has ordered jury selection in the trial of David Edenfield to begin Sept. 21, nearly two weeks later than a date the judge scheduled months ago.
Edenfield, along with his wife and adult son, are charged with the March 2007 slaying of young Christopher Michael Barrios.
The boy was last seen March 8, 2007 in his Glynn County neighborhood.
His disappearance prompted a massive search, which ended when his body was found wrapped in trash bags and dumped near some woods. He had been assaulted, raped and killed.
Two years later, a memorial remains near the location where the child's body was found.
This was the second delay for Edenfield's trial. The judge had originally scheduled it for May, but pushed the trial back to September because of a lack of state funding to pay for Edenfield's defense.
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