Parents Behaving Badly

42 opinions for Cops: Jonathon Edington’s Neighbor Did NOT Molest Daughter

• Sam
  Oct 19, 2006 at 1:52 pm

  But he was a good father, but a better she bitch in jail. Jonathon would you do me a favor and pickup that bar of soap that I dropped.

  You almost have to laugh, as I said before:

  Most killers go to jail and become lawyers in an effort to get out.

  In this case, we have a lawyer who commits murder inorder to get into jail.

  Most lawyers get rich of of murder cases.

  This lawyer is going broke from a murder case.

  Oh why, oh why did Raymond Burr have to die. Perry get me out of this.

  And everybody don’t forget to contribute the the Jonathon Edington defence fund. He needs knives, ladders, screen cutters, and laundry soap that will get the blood stains out. He knows that there’s innocent accused molestors out there and he won’t stop until he finds you, no I mean them. Why didn’t he listen to his dad and become a postal worker. It’s so much easier to go door to door instead of window to window.

• Robyn Tippins
  Oct 19, 2006 at 2:31 pm

  What a horrible mess. Just think what that little girl will carry through her life…

  A completely innocent man who not only was accused unfairly and bore the shame associated with such a crime only to die before vindication at the hands of a grief-stricken father.

  I agree, this is why we have courts. Yes, you can understand the passion and fear the father and mother held, but he murdered an innocent man and SHOULD spend decades in prison.

• Anonymous coward
  Oct 19, 2006 at 2:55 pm

  The best quote was the last sentenance, “And sadly, it’s Jonathan Edington - and possibly his wife - who has ruined it”. Possibly? It is well known that it is a wife that ruins a man.

  He only gets what he deserves. No room for inept cops AND viligiante justice.

• AF
  Oct 19, 2006 at 3:02 pm

  As a recent father myself, I have to say that I would maim or kill anyone who harmed my baby, but only after they were convicted and served whatever paltry time they had been given.

  This is an unfortunate case all around.

• Noir
  Oct 19, 2006 at 3:02 pm

  Innocent or not, isn’t MURDER illegal? He will go to jail whether the man he killed was a pedophile or not. Hopefully he feels some remorse for flying off the handle and killing someone based on the testimony of a 2 year old. A 2 YEAR OLD, for christ’s sake! They can barely talk!

• The Zero Boss
  Oct 19, 2006 at 3:05 pm

  I may as well, AF. But like you said, AFTER all the facts were in.

  Noir - yeah, he should’ve gone to jail anyway. I’ve advocated that from the beginning. And this is exactly WHY he should go to jail: because “vigilante justice” is a contradiction in terms.

• Emari
  Oct 20, 2006 at 9:01 am

  One of the most atrocious aspects of this case has been how Edington killed Barry while his seventy-something-year-old parents were watching and pleading for their son’s life. Now these senior citizens are left without their son’s support and with this trauma. It’s almost unbearable to think about.

• Lawrence Tureaud
  Oct 20, 2006 at 10:04 am

  Can someone remind me who once said “Vengence is mine?”

• bas
  Oct 20, 2006 at 10:32 am

  Some people have testosterone where normally brains reside. All I can say is poor victim and child, the parents probably get what they deserve.

• butchbailey.com » Blog Archive » Vigilante Justice Is Bad
  Oct 20, 2006 at 12:25 pm

  [...] Now it turns out the neighbor was completely innocent. [...]

• Jonathon Edington: In Wake of Revelation, Some STILL Defend Vigilante Justice - from Parents Behaving Badly by Jay Andrew Allen
  Oct 20, 2006 at 2:27 pm

  [...] Yesterday, we all gaped in awed terror at the revelations surrounding Jonathon Edington. Edington had murdered his neighbor Barry James after Edington’s 2-year-old daughter seemed to accuse James of sexual molestation. But police say that they are certain that no molestation ever occurred. My opinion piece on this case was featured on the social bookmarking site Reddit, where it sparked a furious discussion on vigilante justice. What’s amazing about the thread is that some people are still defending Edington’s use of vigilante justice against James. [...]

• Dave
  Oct 20, 2006 at 9:39 pm

  typical american. they believe first thing they here, every time; even if its a baboon saying it. no matter what, you can’t convince them otherwise of the truth.

• ZMan
  Oct 21, 2006 at 5:52 pm

  This is the kind og vigilantism that the “sex offender registries” are causing, Maine is another example where this occurred. The registries do NOT protect anyone and are a false sense of security, plus, they put the families and children of sex offenders lives at risk. This is a good example of that.

  Tell me once where any of these stupid sex offender laws has protected any child?

  What about murderers, gang members, drug dealers/users, DUI offenders, etc. I’d like to know if one of those lives next to me as well, but, the registries only instill fear, and do NOT work.

• MCA
  Oct 22, 2006 at 11:28 am

  Aside from the murder, what bothers me is how could a spouse tell the other spouse, their child was molested, via a phone conversation? She had to anticipate how he would react.

• ProtectiveParent
  Oct 30, 2006 at 9:00 pm

  I have to say that most of you on here are full of S*&7!!!! If you stop to think about what u are saying, if this were YOUR BABY and someone did this to your child (how do we really know he DIDNT do anything, just because police or investigators said so? (generally speaking two year olds dont make stuff like that up out of the blue)We dont know what really happened, and even though I dont agree with JE loosing it, anyway if someone did something to your child and you totally beleived it (for whatever reason) that it were true many of you cannot say how you would react. That is your baby and youd give up your life for that child, especially if you thought there was a chance that the perpetrator would do it again, I disagree with the author here, I TOTALLY respect the parents who take the law into their own hands to protect there children when the courts wont, whatelse can they do, I wouldnt have done it the way JE did it but like I said I can understand why he did it especially if he thought it to be true in his own mind. It does not make it right either way.

• angry over it all
  Oct 31, 2006 at 9:33 am

  I’d have to say that I am sad for the Edington’s family.

  I had an instance where I found out a best friend had talked dirty to my 4 yr. old daughter. I knew the law wouldn’t be there for me and my family based on here say. So, to know for sure, I broke into this bastards house to find evidence, before going to the police. What I found was proof enough. I later went to the police and they got a warrant to search his house and confiscated his computer. 3 months later, they arrested him and convicted him of child porn, over 95,000 images. It took over a year in the courts, while he was out on bail, living next to a playground, before his sentencing. The courts are Bullshit. Finally, a day before his sentencing, he blew his head off, because he wasn’t man enough to face the charges. Better he do it than me though, I really wanted to be the one to pull the trigger. But I can sympathise with Edington, just wish he had proof before doing what he did.

• Sam
  Nov 3, 2006 at 2:29 pm

  ProtectiveParent and angry over it all;

  You guys need to get a grip. With no physical evidence, you still want to convict James.

  Oh, but children don’t lie. But any sane person would have to ask themselves, where and when could James have done this. And, again the answer is “He couldn’t.”

  You want to free Edington. Okay. Lets let him move next door to you. Then, the next time his daughter speaks and you end up dead, well, I guess you had it coming to you.

  James didn’t babysit for the Edingtons. The baby never played in the backyard alone. The Edingtons had two dogs. And still, you contend and believe that James was able to get into this house and molest this girl. James never left finger prints. The child’s window was always left open. James knew when the parents had left her. James came and went without the child crying or screaming out. The baby monitor never broadcasted sounds from the room of what was going on. Do you want me to go on?

  I mean if there was at least some plausable way that James could have done what you accuse him of, then I’d be on your side. But, to go and convict a dead man who was knived 13 times.

  It’s just sad. Yes there are child molestors out there and among us. Yes, they should be sent to jail for a very, very long time.

  BUT JAMES WAS NOT A MOLESTOR. EDINGTON WAS CAUGHT RED HANDED. HE MURDERED. HE MURDERED. HE MURDERED.

  Instead of using reasoning and stopping one second to think, he killed. Now, he’s going to jail. His daughter will be raised without a father. His family will be sued for all the money they have. His baby will grow up poor.

  James mother and father who lived with him because he didn’t want them in a home will now be residents of the state. Their private home will be sold to pay the Medicare expenses. And, more importantly, they’ve had every parent’s worst nightmare, that is, a death of their child before them. Moreover, they saw his violent death infront of their very eyes and were helpless to do anything about it. Do I need to go on?!?!

  But no, in your shallow world the end result of a violent, unjustified murder was well worth it.

  angry over it all
  “I broke into this bastards house to find evidence, before going to the police.”

  Did I read this right? Or did you mean to say that:
  “I broke into this bastards house to PLANT evidence, before going to the police.”

  Dude you scare me. Personal privacy and innocent until proven guilty. There’s a whole bunch of issues here, but you feel justifed. I don’t know if you saved a bunch of children or not. Yes, child pornography is illegal. But, again, you’re opening Pandora’s Box. So, by your reasoning and actions if I think that you may commit a crime then, I have the right to search your home. “Let’s see. You work at Walmart, but you bought that 30′ boat last year. Well, he must be cheating on his taxes, so invite me over so I can look through every personal article that you own. No, I didn’t realize that your parents left you some money. I’ve made myself police, DA, and judge. You’re guilty.”

  This sort of borders on that Tom Cruise movie where you are convicted before you committed a crime.

  Forgive the rant. I’m just tired of the people justifing a killers actions.

• Christoff
  Nov 3, 2006 at 3:46 pm

  Excellent points Sam - although I don’t think Angry planted evidence in his neighbour’s house.

  This reminds me of an incident in Peru, I think. A man was going to a market to sell handicrafts. A mob of locals decided he was guilty of theft and burned him alive. He survived, only to be crippled and disfigured. Of course being burned alive is a grossly disproportionate punishment for theft, and it turns out he was innocent anyway.

  This is why the police are probably right to come down hard on any cases of vigilantism. If they didn’t it could spiral out of control to the point where even its most ardent supporters would be disgusted.

• The Zero Boss
  Nov 3, 2006 at 5:12 pm

  Beautiful rant, Sam. Very well said.

  Christoff - exactly. It’s a slippery slope.

• Sam
  Nov 13, 2006 at 7:07 pm

  I’ve scored. (Sorry, I’m drunk now.)

  Two of my posts made, Kaitlyn Mae Blog.

  One post the web author support me. (James not Mr James)
  The second, she hate me. (No physical evidence childs words.) She claims I must be family.

  Pretty sweet.

  For the record, don’t know either party. I’m a father of 2 boys. Never let them out of my sight.

  There was never a plausable explanation of how James could have done this; therefore, I always felt that this was an unjusitifable murder.

  I cry for James’ family!

  Sam

• Knowledgeable
  Nov 20, 2006 at 8:44 pm

  I know this family. I don’t believe in vigilante justice but you only know what’s been disclosed on the news and you’ve even gotten that wrong. The neighbor’s parents didn’t watch their son die or plead for his life, his mother discovered his body after the murder. I do call it murder. But I also know the events surrounding JE’s family; the things that might have contributed to his reaction. It’s not for me or anyone else here to decide what is appropriate justice for him. A jury will decide that.

  Now I don’t know if Jonathan’s daughter was molested but why would a two year old lie about a thing like that? She told her Mom she didn’t want to go home because she didn’t like what the neighbor was doing to her. I don’t think she had any idea that it was a bad thing but that it was simply something she didn’t like.

  Don’t you dare tell me that Christine should go to jail as well. What exactly is she guilty of? Do you think that she could have fathomed the reaction of her husband? JE is a quiet kind man. Not a man with a temper that you might think would fly in a rage. I have never seen an ounce of anger or evil in that man. She is a mother whose little girl told her that she was being molested by a man whose actions had become erratic. She called her husband. Why wouldn’t she? Why wouldn’t she turn to her husband to figure out what to do?

  A month earlier Jonathan and Christine had called the cops on Mr. James because he was standing naked in front of the window facing their home. Who stands in front of a window butt naked when the houses are that close? Or even at all? What about the incident of him getting drunk and screaming obscenities at the children in the neighborhood? Not the adults. The children. The police may not have found any evidence of child molestation but that doesn’t necessarily mean one thing or another. It doesn’t mean that Mr. James was perfect either. Do not misunderstand me, none of what I’m saying means that he should have been killed.

  Again, I am not going to decide what should happen to Jonathan and I don’t know if Mr. James molested their daughter. I do know their family. I don’t believe that if the circumstances in their lives at the time had been different that we would be discussing this right now. He believed that his daughter had experienced one of the worst things a child could experience and reacted, badly.

  Two families are ruined. I know Jonathan wouldn’t have done this if he was in his right mind. Jonathan snapped because he believed what his daughter said. Time will pass and more details will come out and a JURY will decide.

• Sam
  Nov 28, 2006 at 4:14 pm

  More random thoughts.

  You know, we only focused on how James could have gotten into the Edington home in done this.

  But, we never really discussed how he could pull this off living with his parents? What do I mean?

  Did he go into his own bedroom and lock the door crawl out his own window just to BREAK INTO THE Edington’s home. What if his mother knocks on his door and he doesn’t answer? Did he ever lock his bedroom door? Now he has to go in and out of two windows with no one on the street seeing him.

  Did he say he was going the store? Does he walk or drive to the store? Either way, he has to return with a package. Did he have to have a package ready? What if his mother asked him to purchase additional items not previously readied by him. Are there photos from the store cameras showing when he bought these goods? Driving means he has to move the car, walk back to the Edingtons, hope that the child is still there, commit the crime, walk back to the car, and then return home.

  Did he say he was going to work? Did his mom call there and he wasn’t there?

  So again, logic doesn’t dictate that James ever molested this girl. Not only was he supposed to have entered and left the Edington’s without any of their family knowing, but also James truly has to exit and re-enter his own home without his parent suspecting anything.

  Hey knowledgeable, if you truly do know the Edingtons, do they have a dog or dogs as reported by the NY Post?

  Answering YES to my last question pretty much seals my decision of GUILT for Jonathon.

  Also, another thing that bugs me, for a two year to have made these statements, we have no concept of the number of times that Barry James was accused to have committed this crime. Was it once or twice or three times? Maybe it was four, but dam Barry James must have been good cause he was never caught entering or leaving the home.

  Also, what is the crime statistics concerning criminals being able to get into anyone’s home and not being detected by the homeowner?

  But again, we are to believe this all happened to a two year old girl WHO NEVER CRIED OR SCREAMED OUT as James entered or more importantly AS HE LEFT her.

  I’m willingly to convert to your side, but neither you nor anyone else has supplied any other evidence than just the girl’s words. I agree that two year olds probably don’t lie and do get molested, but again these babies get molested by fathers or cousins or total strangers in the park when they’re left alone. People who had access and could be alone with the children.

  But to say that James was able to pull this off as a stranger breaking into the Edington’s home without anyone knowing is truly hard to believe.

  Furthermore, why was this girl traumatized on the vacation? You’d have to think that if the event occurred she’d said something the very next morning. But, no, she has to suppress the memory until she’s on vacation.

  Again, explain this to me too.

• Knowledgeable
  Nov 28, 2006 at 4:48 pm

  Like I said I don’t know if Jonathon’s daughter was molested but I don’t think that is the issue. Mr. James’ behavior was erratic to the point that when Jonathon was informed of his daughter’s statement and he reacted badly. Again, I state, I don’t believe that what he did was right. No one is ever going to know if she was molested but Jonathon believed and reacted. He believed it happened. He is her father and in his eyes he failed to protect his daughter.

  To address your question Sam, they do have dogs.

  It is not that their daughter was traumatized during the vacation with her aunts and great-grandmother; it was the night before she was to return home. It was not that she just blurted that statement out for no reason. She said she didn’t want to go home. Christina asked her why and she told her mom that Barry puts it on her belly and the rest that has been printed.

  I don’t know what else to tell you. I know the family. Jonathon is not a violent or angry man. Obviously, being informed that his daughter was molested caused him to snap. Its sad because that is not the person he is. As I stated in my previous posting, there were other non-disclosed stresses, and it is not my place to state them either, in their family, in addition to a new baby. I think that these things were a contributing factor to the severity of Jonathon’s reaction.

  I feel sad for Mr. James’ parents but I also feels badly for Jonathon and Christina.

• Sam
  Nov 29, 2006 at 10:07 pm

  Knowledgeable;

  Thank you!

  But, let me start by saying I truly don’t know either family.

  I live in Maryland and what bugs me about this case was it made headlines (CNN,FOX,ABC,…).

  As someone one the sidelines with no dog in this race, I sort of felt betrayed. Why? Because, in this case, a father acted in defence of his daughter without enough information.

  As a parent, I raised sons. As a parent, I’ve never let them out of my sight or farther than within hearing distance.

  My whole problem with this case is that victums of molestations tried to put a noose around Barry James and at the whole time I could never see a logical, reasonable way that Barry James could have had the opprotunity to have committed this crime.

  Barry James is the victum of this crime.

  Jonathon Edington’s daughter is also a vistum of this crime. She will grow up always under the shadow of whether it occurred or not.

  However, we do know John lost all reasoning when he received this phone call. Was he right? Was he wrong?

  Well, I say we will never know. As an audience, we can and will and have the opprotunity to play Monday morning quarterback because we have the fortune on knowing the outcome. But, we need to move beyond this.

  The real question here is two fold:
  1> will society stop thinking of Barry James as a child molestor?

  2> what punishment should we give John?

  Truly, I only have the option of the first question. Barry James, in my view, was an innocent victum.

  A jury will make the second judgement.

  What scares me about this whole case is freedom. Today’s witch trials are someone accused of molesting a child. I guess as people we never change.

  Again, I state, we need to prosecute Molestors, Rapist, …, but we need to do using logic and reasoning.

  John’s fate? I would guess that he’s already aged 30 years. A DWI offense is a lessor crime.

  But, I don’t know. Again, I’ve only read what was written.

  However, if I took someone’s life for the wrong reason, how could I live with myself.

  The Amish school killings truly show what faith in God and a reaching out to the murder’s family can do?

  I’ll get off the soapbox now.

• LAM
  Jan 6, 2007 at 6:31 am

  I knew Barry James and never believed for one wild moment that he did this! Not only is he the tragic victim in this case so is his family-his parents,sister,niece,nephews,aunts and cousins!

  I hope Mr. Eddington spends the rest of his life in prison for what he did to an INNOCENT man. What he did is simply and utterly an outrage! In addition, I hope his wife is charged as well for putting into motion,this horrific tragedy that has befallen the James family. For parents to have witnessed or discovered their son’s murder is beyond comprehension!

• Dave
  Jan 23, 2007 at 8:12 am

  This was/is a horrible situation all the way around. As a parent of young children, I can understand the rage Eddington must have felt, but can’t condone it. However, I can’t guarantee that I wouldn’t lose it if my wife told me that my child had indicated to her that my neighbor molested the kid. I pray this never happens.

  Some issues that jump out at me:
  First, the police are not finders of fact. The cops’ conclusions as to whether any molestation took place are not legal facts unless the defense stipulates to them. Without a stipulation, this is a question for a jury to decide. A good attorney (and Eddington will have a damned good attorney, probably a team of them, given such a high profile case and a net worth of at least $5 mil–which I can’t believe this guy could have accumulated in 2 years of practicing law; his family or his wife’s must be loaded, so I’m sure someone will be willing to foot the bill for top notch counsel) will be able to impeach the investigation, investigators, report, etc. to the point that a jury may not be able to believe there was no molestation.
  Second, the mistake of fact of the molestation by Eddington will at least mitigate the charges. I don’t think he’ll beat all the charges. He’s going to go to prison for a while, but the charges will be reduced by negotiations or a sympathetic jury. I bet he won’t get a life sentence.
  Third, the plaintiffs will win the civil trial. Even if the molestation accusations are true, killing the neighbor was not justifiable nor reasonable.
  Fourth, it is improper to pass judgment on any of the parties until all the facts are known. People want to jump to conclusions one way or the other based on their own personal feelings. For Eddington’s (and justice’s) sake, I hope he gets an impartial jury.
  In any case, this has ruined the lives of a lot of people. I have to wonder how a two year old girl learned about penises; why she would make up a story like she did; why a successful, intelligent man would immediately resort to violence of the worst order instead of communicating with anyone (police, the neighbor, the child, talking it through with the wife). It is sad for everyone involved.

• Sam
  Jan 23, 2007 at 3:03 pm

  Latest news:

  http://www.fairfieldcitizen-news.com/local/ci_5029830

• Concerned
  Feb 18, 2007 at 11:07 pm

  IMO, 2 year olds do not make things up.
  At that age they are pretty much like the proverbial
  parrot, in that they repeat virtually everything said to them (or in this case, done to them).

  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!

• Jaycey
  Feb 19, 2007 at 9:26 pm

  Concerned,

  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.

• missy
  Feb 20, 2007 at 12:07 am

  A lawyer should know better. (DOES KNOW BETTER.)
  It must be an incredibly articulate 2 year old. The smarter they are, the more imaginative powers they have. And if he knows the law and his possible ability to get off and to convince a jury that his extreme duress caused him to act in that manner because of his belief that a crime had been committed, he might get off altogether. I think they had problems with the victim and conspired to rid themselves of him. There’s a sense of entitlement among rich and powerful people that makes them think they are above the law. A lawyer would not do anything that he did not believe he could get away with. He’ll say the immediate 911 call that he made proves he “got carried away” but then thought better of it. It’s not like they will make the 2 year old testify. How about having her examined prior to reacting? And even more ironic, how about if she wasn’t too clear of her identification? (my neices and nephews are older than that and often still identify well known adults by the wrong name. I think we all look the same to them at times.) In that case a predator could still be lurking (and laughing!) Perhaps the child simply did not want to end a pleasant vacation and wanted to stay. Perhaps she was already in the habit of manipulating her parents and knew they had “buttons to push.” Wouldn’t the first reaction be “in two years time, we’ve barely left that child out of our sight, how COULD this be true.” I’ll bet he gets off. I bet he does. It is not like they will make the child testify or anything. How rediculous is that? I went to a private preschool and they did not teach us the word penis. I didn’t learn the word penis until kindergarten. And even that was thought to be very precocious. I believe his anger toward the guy started well before that phone call. They may have even planned to do it while the wife and hchild were safely away so they wouldn’t be bothered by the messy situation and uproar in the neighborhood.

• Sam
  Feb 21, 2007 at 3:16 pm

  Concerned & Jaycey

  “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.

• cici
  Apr 22, 2007 at 4:06 pm

  why did the little girl say he did that if he didnt?

• erin
  May 2, 2007 at 6:40 am

  It wasn’t New Haven police, it was the Fairfield Police Department.

• Sam
  May 14, 2007 at 1:13 pm

  http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_5796733

  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.

• Sam
  May 14, 2007 at 1:18 pm

  Both Benedict and Fairfield police have said they found no evidence that James had molested the Edingtons’ daughter. They also said Christina Edington has refused to cooperate with the investigation into the slaying.

  Same article from ConnPost.

• Jaycey
  Jun 19, 2007 at 9:33 pm

  http://www.connpost.com/ci_6173352?source=most_emailed

  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.

• Sam
  Jun 21, 2007 at 6:48 pm

  “A red door painted black.”

  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

• ashley
  Jul 11, 2007 at 4:36 pm

  how do they know he’s innocent? just because he didnt have child porn? that doesn’t make sense ! maybe the man had molested before and was never caught. if my daughter said something like that i would go off too. the words she used werent words a normal 2 year old knows. so why would she use those words and say that he molested her if he didnt?

• Sam
  Aug 12, 2007 at 12:01 pm

  Ashley;

  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

• Marianne
  Sep 2, 2007 at 4:04 pm

  How did he (a disabled obese man) climb in the window?

  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.

• Marianne
  Sep 2, 2007 at 4:31 pm

  Sounds like Christine is a bit of a drama queen, now she has “multiple sclerosis” and isn’t able to work. Boo fricken Hoo accomplice

  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.

• suki
  Sep 2, 2007 at 6:55 pm

  So, you kill the abuser-how does that help your
  child-you go to jail and now she’s lost you too.

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