I was so sickened by this story, I just couldn't believe it. This is why I often hate to watch the news. I like to stay informed, but when I hear stories like this, it makes me physically sick. Totally Evil.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/22/mis...oy.funeral.ap/
BRUNSWICK, Georgia (AP) -- A 6-year-old boy who police say was sexually abused, choked to death and dumped by the side of a road in black plastic trash bags was mourned at a closed-casket funeral Thursday.
An honor guard of firefighters stood at attention and a stuffed Spider-Man sat atop the young fan's casket as 400 relatives, friends and complete strangers packed the Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home to remember Christopher Michael Barrios, whose brutal slaying has stunned this Georgia port city.
So many people came that the staff at the funeral home had to squeeze 100 chairs between the chapel pews. Even then, some stood and watched from the parlor.
"I feel like I came, basically, because he seemed like he was our child," said John Foote, a 40-year-old truck driver who helped in the search for Christopher along with his wife, Lynn.
Mourners in suits and dresses sat next to others in ball caps and T-shirts printed with Christopher's photo and phrases such as "We Brought Him Home, Now Bring Him Justice." Their voices joined as a single chorus, rising above sobs and sniffles, as the congregation sang "Jesus Loves Me." Some shouted "Amen!" during the preacher's sermon.
"When cowardly men do horrible things, it has nothing to do with the will of God," the Rev. Chris Foster said. "It has everything to do with the fact they have chose to follow the ways of the evil one."
Convicted child molester George David Edenfield and his parents, David and Peggy Edenfield, have all been charged with child molestation and murder in the child's death. Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty. They lived near Christopher in a trailer across the street from the boy's grandmother.
A friend of the Edenfields, 35-year-old Donald Dale, has been charged with helping them conceal the boy's death.
According to an affidavit police used to obtain a search warrant of the Edenfield's home, 32-year-old George David Edenfield told police that he choked Christopher to death with his hands. He told them the "devil" told him to kill Christopher after he watched the boy arrive home from school.
Before the child was killed, authorities say, Edenfield and his 58-year-old father molested the boy while Edenfield's 57-year-old mother watched.
The indictment contains grim details about the case that police and prosecutors had not previously revealed. It says Christopher died from asphyxiation March 8 -- the day he was reported missing -- after the suspects choked him while "ignoring his complaints that they were hurting him." The indictment does not say which of three caused the boy's death.
It also claims George Edenfield and his 58-year-old father sodomized the boy and forced him to perform oral sex while Peggy Edenfield watched and masturbated.
Peggy Edenfield told police her son tried to wash fingerprints off the dead boy's neck with soap and water and then wrapped the body in trash bags, according to the affidavit. She said she helped her husband, David Edenfield, dispose of the wrapped body.
Christopher's remains were found last Thursday along a roadside three miles from the mobile home park where he lived with his father.