Lawyer Charged With Killing Neighbor

Lawyer Charged With Killing Neighbor
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN , 08.30.2006, 02:03 PM

A lawyer climbed through a neighbor's bedroom window and stabbed him to death after being told by a family member that the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter, authorities say.

Barry James, 58, was stabbed in the chest nearly a dozen times Monday. The lawyer, Jonathon Edington, 29, was jailed on $1 million bail on charges of murder and burglary.

Capt. Gary MacNamara said Wednesday that police had not received a complaint about the child being assaulted before the killing, and "we have no indication it's true or not true."

Edington's attorney, Michael Sherman, said the information came from Edington's wife. "The daughter gave the mother information which was alarming and disturbing. The mom relayed it to her husband. That was the spark," Sherman said.
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http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/08/30/ap2983340.html

:popcorn:

She will want to know.

He got what was coming to him.

The first stop should have been a child psychiatrist. The second should have been the police.

Two year olds are usually not verbal. This one needed a whole lot more investigation about how the conclusion the kid had been molested was arrived at by her parents.

It's certainly possible. However, two families are now destroyed when it might have been just the perp. This stuff never works.

And the alleged perp worked at a funeral home. They'll surely give him an employee discount....

Bullshit. This here is Amerika, and everyone deserves a trial. Maybe the mother wanted to pour hot oil on the neighbor, or maybe she wanted to get rid of her husband, or or maybe he really did do something to the child, maybe, maybe, maybe. You'd think a lawyer would know better than to commit murder with half his brain tied behind his back. How's he going to protect his child when in prison? She will be an adult when he gets out, if he ever gets out. While it may be a natural gut instinct, he didn't think of his child's future. Now that poor little girl will have to bear this suffering too. Too sad.

invade someones home and take their life?

Welcome to DU. :think:

My home town! Not that the damn article says anything about that. Idiots.

Here's the CNN link:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/31/neighbor.stabbing.ap/?section=cnn_us&ref=google