Strangers Come Together for Justice for Christopher Barrios

ALYSIA wrote:

CHRISTOPHERS SMILE LOOKS OUT AT YOU AND TOUCHES YOUR SOUL.HE HAS A SMILE THAT MAKES YOU BELIEVE IN LAUGHTER AND HAPPINESS,YET HIS LIFE WASNT AN EASY ONE.BUT CAN YOU SEE ANY OF THAT IN HIS FACE?LOOK INTO HIS EYES,THEY SEEM TO SPEAK RIGHT TO YOUR HEART.YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE GOD HAD A PURPOSE WITH CHRISTOPHER.FOR ME,IT WAS TO MAKE ME MORE AWARE OF THE STRUGGLES CHILDREN IN MY OWN AREA FACE.TO MAKE ME GET UP AND MAKE A STAND AND TO CONNECT ME WITH SOME REALLY GREAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE BECOME REALLY WONDERFUL FRIENDS.I THINK ABOUT THAT ALOT.....DOSENT IT JUST PROVE,GOD DOES WORK IN SOME REALLY MYSTERIOUS WAYS....JUST FELT LIKE SHARING....LOL

I only just now saw this and it is a nice statement Alysia you are not alone in how you feel.

Happy 4th to everyone.

Ever since hearing this case in early March, I have been overwhelmed with emotion over how this innocent, beautiful child was a victim of such a horrific crime. I think about Christopher often and know that he is now one of God's angels.

Christopher should be on top of the Brunswick forum.

Keeping Christopher's memory alive!

ditto

BARRIOS UPDATE: THE LATEST STORY PRINTED IN THE BRUNSWICK NEWS TODAY 7/13/07:

Barrios defendant wants speedy trial
Fri, Jul 13, 2007
The lawyer representing Donald Dale, charged with concealing a death and tampering with evidence in the March slaying of 6-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr., is seeking to have his client exonerated at an early trial.

John Wetzler, the Brunswick attorney appointed to represent Dale, filed a request Thursday in Glynn County Superior Court for a speedy trial.

Under the request, Dale would have to be brought to trial within a year. No trial date has been set.

Three members of one family – George Edenfield, his mother Peggy Edenfield and father David Edenfield, all of 121 Horseshoe Lane in the Canal Road Mobile Home Park – have been charged with sexually molesting and murdering Christopher on March 8.

Because each faces the death penalty, pretrial procedures could delay the start of their trials for a year or more

Keeping Christopher on top!

deb, I am still working hard! I talk about Christopher daily! Almost at our goal!

Justice For Christopher!

ANOTHER NEWS UPDATE:
Fri, Aug 3, 2007

By EMILY STRANGER

The Brunswick News

Results from DNA testing will determine which member of the Edenfield family – son George, father David or mother Peggy – will go to trial first in the molestation and murder of 6-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr.

During a pretrial hearing Thursday for defendant David Edenfield, District Attorney Stephen Kelley told a Superior Court judge test results are pending and that he will decide on a trial sequence based on those results.

DNA testing provides evidence of physical contact between the suspects and the victim.

Kelley revealed his strategy after Superior Court Judge Stephen Scarlett told prosecutors to give evidence they already have against the three defendants to defense lawyers by Aug. 14 as part of pretrial discovery.

Prosecutors allege that the Edenfields kidnapped, sexually abused and murdered Christopher on March 8 inside their trailer in the Canal Road Mobile Home Park.

After a search by hundreds of community volunteers and law enforcement agents, the body of the C.B. Greer Elementary School kindergartner was found March 15 in a black trash bag about two miles from where he lived with his father in the same trailer park.

Kelley and Assistant District Attorney John Johnson agreed to the request to supply evidence, but told Scarlett that they were waiting on some evidence, including DNA tests, to be returned from the Georgia State Crime Lab.
The request for evidence – a normal procedure in a criminal trial – was one of 60 defense motions Scarlett heard Thursday from attorneys James Yancey Jr. and David Beall IV, representing defendant David Edenfield.

The hearing came three days after a similar proceeding Monday for George Edenfield, and many of the motions presented by Yancey and Beall were similar to those from George Edenfield's attorneys, Gerald Word and Todd Wooten. A pre-trial hearing for Peggy Edenfield has not been set.

Beall and Yancey argued their motions with Kelley and Johnson for nearly four hours Thursday.

Other motions argued by the defense were the necessity of a juror questionnaire and that the prosecution not challenge the defense in a discriminatory matter based on race.

"For the record, the race of Mr. Edenfield and the alleged victim are different," said Yancey in his argument.

Use of the phrase "alleged victim" enraged Johnson, who pointed out that there is no "alleged" victim in the case.

"(Christopher) is dead and buried," he said. "I don't want us to understand there is a nebulous victim here."

The defense also requested that Scarlett prohibit any victim impact statements, which would give family and friends of the slain child the opportunity to tell the court how the crime has affected them personally.

Before the end of the hearing, Johnson told Scarlett that he would need to reschedule an evidentiary hearing for David Edenfield from the week of Oct. 1.

The schedule conflict frustrated Scarlett, who rescheduled the hearing to Nov. 5.

"This is like herding cats," said Scarlett, while trying to align the new schedule of hearings. "I understand the dynamics of your office, but I hope you understand the dynamics of my calendar."

Christopher's grandmother, Sue Rodriguez, attended the hearing Thursday and said she was disgusted by the affair.

"I think it's sickening," she said outside the Glynn County Courthouse afterward.

Rodriguez, who had glared at David Edenfield during the hearing, said the date extension made her all the more frustrated.

"We're now going to have to pay for (David Edenfield) to sit in jail even longer," she said. "It's our tax dollars paying for his food and water. I say, let him drink out of the toilet or sink faucet instead."

Kelley said he was not surprised by any of the motions filed on behalf of David Edenfield or George Edenfield.

"These are all routine motions in death penalty cases," he said.

Keeping you on top Precious Angel!

Just another Mom wanting to keep your pages on top. You deserve to be in the top ten. RIP Christopher-Forever Brunswicks Special Angel

Good Morning Sweet Angel-Just keeping you on top where you belong!

Good Morning Sweet Angel-Keeping you back on top where you belong!

Thinking of Christopher today, and looking for updated on the Edenfields....any word of trial dates yet?? This is taking too long to get justice for Christopher. Personally, I'd rather just shoot them all in the face and be done with it....

Justice Delayed will Not Be Justice Denied for The Edenfields.

PA Mom wrote:

Thinking of Christopher today, and looking for updated on the Edenfields....any word of trial dates yet?? This is taking too long to get justice for Christopher. Personally, I'd rather just shoot them all in the face and be done with it....

No word on court dates yet. es I agree this is taking way too long!

GA Mom wrote:

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No word on court dates yet. es I agree this is taking way too long!

Thank you. I'll keep checking in......

Christopher to the top.