Sat, 24 Mar 2007

Molester and his parents indicted in boy's death

These people are monsters - nothing short of the death penalty would serve them properly. But one paragraph in this sordid tale struck a chord: how did this murderous clan come to be ensconced in their trailer park abode?

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.

I've blogged about these laws before. Now we see the real effect - these insane regulations do nothing to prevent child molesters from preying on the innocent, they merely shuffle the deck, and place these perverts in new communities that have no idea there are now monsters in their midst.

A convicted child molester and his parents were indicted Wednesday on charges they molested and then murdered a 6-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found last week in a trash bag dumped by a roadside.

(link) [CNN.com]

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On 3/25/2007 11:21:24
Shelley wrote

MacRaven, you missed one point. Michael Barrios' father, Chris Barrios, is also a registered sex offender, although a much different type of RSO (statutory rape). (check some of the earlier news stories for this information. It points Chris Barrios' legal status, although the later news stories do not mention it.) I wonder if he was forced to move there or if he was already there when the state imposed the law from 2006. If he was already there, it means the state placed the insane child molester and his family there - to kill Michael Barrios. If Chris Barrios had to move there to comply with the law, the state placed his son in physical jeopardy by also allowing a murderous child molester, as opposed to someone like Chris Barrios, to live near each other. Either way, the state of Georgia has blood on its hands. It's almost as if it said, "We only care about certain children - the children of those people not on the sex offender registry. If you're a child whose parent is on the registry, you're on your own. Good luck and don't forget to duck." Either way, if I was Chris Barrios, I would be heartbroken, angry and ready to sue the state of Georgia for doing this. It made the Edenfields move from a previous home because it was too close to a playground - right into a mobile home park filled with children. I will be very interested to find out how the hypocritical Georgian lawmakers deal with this issue - one registered sex offender kills another registered sex offender's child. Will they show some common sense and start listening to the experts, such as Dr. Fred Berlin of the Johns Hopkins University's sex management clinic? Or will they listen to the riotious cries and pleas of fellow lawmakers and the public who demand rebritution? As this case aptly proves, there is no easy solution. And cookie cutter "solutions" ought to be consigned to the dust bin, because they merely give an appearance of public safety, rather than actual safety. Michael Barrios paid the ultimate price to prove the state of Georgia wrong.

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On 3/27/2007 10:47:41
Dave H wrote

Whoa!

I had no idea! Thanks for the comment! Be well, Dave H

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