Those two children should be taken off her since she obviously has a mental problem involving attention seeking (Munchausen perhaps).

The complaint of child molestation was filed after her husband had already killed the guy, so it was probably a story they made up after they killed him for being guilty of living. Mr Edinton being a lawyer no doubt thought he’d get no time in jail at all after using the insanity defence and claims of abuse (to add sympathy).

Note to all the hubbies out there, killing your neighbour will not stop your wife being crazy.

This is the description of the abuse I have read:

The girl “explained that she did not want to go home because of Barry,” police said in the report. When her mother asked her to explain, the girl said “that Barry puts it on her belly and her nose,” the report said. When her mother asked her when James does this, she replied, “He comes to me in the starry nights.” //end quote

Sounds like Mum took a few poetic liberties with her description there. Was the child’s mother abused when she was little? The mother is the one who jumped the ball here and the husband ran right along behind her. If my child said something like that I’d be at the police station (and impressed with their language skills). I wouldn’t be calling my husband on the phone telling him to go kill the neighbour for putting “it” (what is “it”?) on my child’s nose and belly (in “the starry nights” even). How does anyone know she didn’t tell her husband to go next door and do the deed?

You people who say “the child described the molestation” should actually read the described molestation and wonder how a 2 yr old came up with that. Also wonder how a man who had trouble climbing stairs climbed in a window in the dark and found a child in the dark room without making a noise. The innocent man is dead killed by a guilty murdering robot who jumped when his wife said to.

Apples and oranges.

Yes, her statement are perhaps true and given to her mother.

And, yes, the baby, the 2year old, may have had this happen, BUT

AND I SAY BUT, …!!!!, WE, need to find the real criminal if it really happened. We must prevent further molestions.

Me, as well as the State, could never logically figure out how the MURDERED victum could have molested this child.

I believe that James was an innocent of circumstantual evidence.

But, again, John killed. He never let James prove innocence. And, maybe, the real person who access to this baby is still loose.

I ask that you stop and look at the evidence. And again, from day one, I never figured out logically how a hated neighbor by the Edingtons could ever get this close to their child.

In in Florida, the neighbor stole the child. Immediate evidence.

But again, in this case, we are to believe that nothing in the baby’s room ever gave the parents an ideal of molestion until she babbled.

I never denied the baby’s words. For me, I could never LOGICALLY place James there without being caught.

I’m a father and never let my BOYS out of hearing distance until, well, even they were 14-teen and 10.

But, again and most importantly, we need to stop fighting and determine if a the crime was committed. And, the find the criminal.

We, most importantly, need to protect our children. But, we can’t burn witches without tangentable reason. Killing the innocent IS WRONG.

Sam

No winners. No winners. Sadness for all. Jonathon you acted. Barry, you suffered so very much pain, I still cry for you. Edington family, I wish that we can change that one day again. James family, I commit to you that for every Mass I attend for the rest of my life, I will think and pray for Barry.

Why, oh Lord, why did this have to happen? Free will, I guess.

Solutions and reconsilations? I have none.

Except, love always. Never hate. Truly give and ask yourself, Lord, given one chance, did I save and Help the world.

Religion is a personal thing. I don’t care what you think. In fact, I don’t need to convert you, either.

Myself, I ask, was I given a chance to better the world and did I do it?

Again, I ask everyone to pray for the James family. I also, more importantly, ask that you support the Edingtons’ as well.

Trully, I believe that THS IS a time to do this for both. Don’t ever HATE, either. Love always.

Again, Jonathon acted in what he thought was in the best safety for his daughter. I always contended that his belief was that of the Twlight Zone.

But, again, more importantly, love both families. Report possible molestors to the Law and fore and first most, protect our children our babies always. And, always error on their safety without breaking the law. My, no, our, babies’ safety 1st always!!!!!

Take care!
Sam

Though civil action is apparently still pending from James’ family, it appears the criminal proceedings have now been concluded, with Edington pleading guilty down to 1st degree manslaughter.

The 911 phone calls are at the above article URL I listed. I listened to the Edington one, but couldn’t bring myself to listen to the one from James’ parents. The article described the content alright, and it sounded heartbreaking enough to me to keep me away from the actual audio.

Same article from ConnPost.

Fairfield lawyer Jonathan Edington, who police say stabbed his neighbor to death last year after his wife told him the neighbor had molested their 2-year-old daughter, plans an insanity defense.

“Your claim that because child molesters are incurable that their deaths should be regarded as a positive is truly troubling indeed.”

Jaycey, I agree with you on this one.

Concerned, I think you need to take a minute and revisit what we know.

1st – James is dead. He can not be interviewed or questioned and can not admit guilt. Dead, you know.

2nd – Jonathon killed. I like the one message about it be personal. That is, most persons choose guns to distance himself or herself from the murder. Up close and personal. Very violent.

3rd – The police found no physical evidence.

4rd – Adults trying to interupt a 2 year old’s babbling.

5th – Explain again how James committed this crime.

For the love of pete, what is it about this case that people can’t think straight.

Yes there are molestors. Yes they need to be caught and prosecuted. But what is it about this case that people still believe that the murder of James was justified?

Okay let’s go abstract. So, if I’m driving using a GPS device and it tells me to turn left, and I turn left into someone’s front yard and run over the 2 year old baby, then it’s the baby’s fault because GPS don’t lie and I unquestionaly believed and didn’t take it upon myself to look ahead and verify and predict that my actions may be wrong. I was full of road rage the entire time I was driving and did not look or care about the impact into the child’s family. But again, GPS don’t lie, so I must go free.

Bad example, I know. But reading these message, you guys with you lynching mentality to a man knived 13 times to death already really scares me.

Even if I agreed with your reasoning that a well-adjusted 2 year old is an unimpeachable source of truth (which I don’t), your argument makes the fatal flaw of assuming that this daughter is indeed “well adjusted and brought up.”

Not even those here who knew the Edington and James families personally are likely qualified to make such a case with complete certainty. One could argue that a child raised by a parent capable of such alleged violence would hardly be a candiate for normalcy. Not that I’m trying to make that case, but it serves to illustrate the point: we simply don’t know.

Your claim that because child molesters are incurable that their deaths should be regarded as a positive is truly troubling indeed. Almost universally, child molesters themselves come from a background where they have suffered sexual abuse — will you be so firm in your convictions if Edington’s daughter should herself become an abuser later in life? Would you also be willing to deny her the right to a trial to face allegations against her, and strike her down on the word of one person, absent any other evidence?

How easy it must be for you to judge, what knowing all the facts of every situation.

I find it impossible to believe that a 2 yr old well adjusted and brought up child would say anything like this if there was not a single grain of truth to it.

I believe 100% that the father was justified and the neighbour was Guilty.

And as Child molesters are incurable, then the death of this one was the best thing that could have happened.

Better that the father be in prison and and the child alive, than the molester get a second chance and maybe silence the child for good, and the father be childless, forever!