This is an awful case in which a 6-year-old boy was raped and murdered. This is another case that shatters preconceived notions about gender and age in regards to sex offenders. In this case:
BRUNSWICK, Ga. – A 62-year-old Glynn County woman about to go on trial in the 2007 slaying of a 6-year-old boy pleaded guilty but mentally retarded Thursday to five of the eight charges she was facing.
After an emotional, day-long, Peggy Edenfield pleaded guilty to false imprisonment, child molestation, cruelty to a child, concealing a death and tampering with evidence in the death of Christopher Barrios. Charges of murder, kidnapping and sexual assault were dropped.
The next excerpt is somewhat graphic and is the part that makes this all the more awful:
“She stood there in doorway, small room, she prohibited him from leaving (as her husband and son were molesting the boy in their bathroom). He made statements to her, ‘Help me. I need to leave. They’re hurting me.’ She stood in that doorway, which effectively prevented him from leaving the room.”
“She became excited and personally masturbated herself in front of Christopher while the murder was going on. … She did not kill Christopher, but aided and abetted in the acts going on at that time.”
That poor child. And who would suspect that a 62-year-old woman would do such things?
