Father kills accused child molester
Filed under: Health and Safety, Dads, 2 years
Jonathon Edington, a 29-year-old lawyer from Connecticut was told that his neighbor, 58-year-old Barry James, had molested his two-year-old daughter. This news came from his wife who was told by the daughter. So Edington went next door, climbed through a bedroom window, and stabbed the neighbor in the chest nearly a dozen times.Of the alleged molestation, Capt. Gary MacNamara, chief of the administrative division for the Fairfield Police, said "we have no information to indicate it did occur, and we weren't investigating Mr. James for any illegal activity." MacNamara also said that "we have no indication it's true or not true." The police found Edington standing by his kitchen sink with a large kitchen knife on the counter next to him. He had what appeared to be blood on him. Edington was a patent lawyer and has no prior criminal record.
I perfectly understand Edington's emotion and actions; I have said before that if you messed with my kids, I'd do the same, only far more painfully. The troubling part about this story, however, is that nothing had been proven. There was no evidence, and he didn't take the time to investigate it to see if there was any truth to the allegations. What do you think? Did Edington jump the gun? Did James get what he deserved? What would you do if you were in Edington's place?Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments