Christopher Barrios Jr. Graphic Murder Details
I cried, I am crying. He looks like my son. Wow, what can be said for such a shocking story. I personally believe in the death penalty (always have). These are definitely the types of cases in which the murderers deserve it.
I must warn you, what you are about to read is extremely graphic and sad. It will piss you off and may make you want to go stalk the County Jail where these bastards are being held so that you can kill them with your sniper rifle but DON'T DO IT! Georgia will hopefully obtain justice for this terrible crime.
I want to share with you the graphic details of the crime in which Christopher Barrios was killed. Why? Because you people need to wake up and realize whats going on in this world. Protect your children. Stop letting these predators and pedophiles out on the streets.
What did they do to Christopher? George Edenfield (The son), David Edenfield (The father), Peggy Edenfield (The mother). They tortured him!
George Edenfield (The son) and his 58-year-old David Edenfield (The father) took turns sodomizing the boy and forcing him to perform oral sex while Peggy Edenfield (The mother) watched and masturbated. Then they choked him to death as he cried out about how they were hurting him. From reading the local news George Edenfield seen Christopher get off his bus that afternoon and "the devil told him he had to kill him."
In an interview on March 12 George Edenfield had "made some statements of concern to the police department, but there was no evidence that he had any part in the child's disappearance."
Also on March 12, Detectives said Peggy Edenfield allowed police and two Atlanta Natural Gas Co. employees into her trailer to check for methane gas. Detection devices alerted to the presence of methane gas, which is produced by decomposing bodies.
That same warrant includes Peggy Edenfield telling police "that David Edenfield and George Edenfield used clothing to wipe semen off their bodies." No further information on this detail is included in any of the warrant applications.
The indictment charges George Edenfield and both his parents with murder, kidnapping 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.
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 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 asphixation March 8 -- the day he was reported missing -- after the suspects choked him while "ignoring his complaints that they were hurting him."
"It makes me sick and it makes me so angry," said Christopher's grandmother. "All four of them need to be charged with murder and they don't need to be kept alive long. They killed our baby. They don't even need to be alive now."
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.
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 Christopher 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 Edenfield as mentally slow, but capable of understanding right from wrong. They have said he is not retarded.
Christopher Barrios Jr. disappeared from a playground hear his home about 6 p.m. on March 8. His body was found a week later in a trash bag near the Burnswick airport.
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.