Six-year-old boy kidnapped, raped and murdered by family of sex offenders

This news report from Jacksonville, Florida is definitely NOT for the young, or the squeamish.  If you fit either description, stop reading now.  The last I checked on this case, the Edenfields were planning to plead guilty.

As Christopher Barrios’s family struggled to make final preparations to lay the body of the 6-year-old to rest, authorities released chilling details about how he died. 

The just-released 13-count indictment against Christopher’s accused killers, George Edenfield, his parents David and Peggy Edenfield; and family friend Donald Dale, who is charged only with helping conceal the kidnapping and murder, paints the most gruesome picture yet of the brutal death of little Christopher Barrios. 

According to the indictment, the Edenfields lured Christopher into their mobile home on March 8 as the boy was walking from a neighborhood swing set to his grandmother’s house for supper. Inside their trailer, the Edenfields held the little boy captive while George and David, both convicted sex offenders, took turns sodomizing him. 

As she watched her husband and son rape the kindergartener, Peggy Edenfield, 57, masturbated, the indictment charges. 

Sometime during the attack, both George, 32, and his father, David, 58, performed oral sex on the boy. 

The two men then choked Christopher to death. 

Afterward, according to a statement Peggy Edenfield gave to the police, George and David used clothing to wipe semen off of themselves. 

Then, either Peggy or George used soap and water to try to clean off any fingerprints left on Christopher’s neck from the strangulation. They then wrapped the boy’s body in plastic trash bags. 

The Edenfields then called family friend Donald Dale, 34, who helped them dump Christopher’s body near the Glynn County airport. 

Two game wardens, part of a small army of hundreds of law enforcement officers, National Guard troops, and volunteers who spent a week searching for Christopher, found the boy’s body a week later less then three miles from his home. 

The two game wardens, both on ATVs, spotted tire tracks leading off of a road near the airport. They dismounted their ATVs and followed the tracks on foot. About 15 feet from the road, the two lawmen came across a black plastic trash bag buzzing with flies. 

After a week of anxious searching, they had finally found Christopher. 

A Family of Monsters 

In 1994, David Edenfield was convicted of incest for having sex with his daughter. He was sentenced to 10 years of probation. 

Three years later, his son George molested two boys, ages 9 and 7, who lived near the Edenfields’ Union Street home in downtown Brunswick. Like his father, George, received no prison time for his crime. Instead, a judge gave him 10 years probation. 

George Edenfield was well known around Union Street. 

One neighbor told Crime Library that George often flew into terrible rages. While raging, he threatened sexual and other physical attacks. He frequently trespassed on others’ property and threatened one neighbor with hedge trimmers, promising to cut off the neighbor’s toes. According to the neighbor, when Peggy Edenfield heard about the threat, she joked about it, saying George shouldn’t follow through with it because she didn’t like “toe sandwiches.” 

On August 30, 2006, Glynn County sheriff’s deputies told George he had to move. As a registered sex offender, state law prohibited him from living within 1,000 feet of places where children congregate, such as schools, daycare centers, and playgrounds. 

The Edenfields’ house on Union Street was less than 250 feet from the Orange Park playground. 

The deputies gave George Edenfield 10 days to clear out. 

A couple of weeks later, the deputies found out George hadn’t moved, so they got a warrant for his arrest. 

On Oct. 9, sheriff’s deputies arrested Edenfield. He spent nine days in jail before posting a $3,000 bond. 

Shortly after his arrest, George and his family moved into the Canal Road Mobile Home Park where Christopher Barrios lived. 

In mid-November, a Glynn County grand jury indicted George Edenfield for being a registered sex offender living too close to prohibited areas. 

In the trailer park, George continued his strange ways. 

“I know the boy was weird,” neighbor Leland Ferguson told the Florida Times Union. “He’d come up to the school bus and stop and googly-eye the children.” 

Another neighbor said George tried several times to lure two teenage boys into playing ball with him or taking a walk in the woods with him as the boys got off their school bus. 

On March 5, three days before he allegedly kidnapped, raped, and murdered Christopher Barrios, George Edenfield pleaded guilty to the November indictment and received another 10 years of probation. 

Glynn County District Attorney Stephen Kelley announced Wednesday that he is seeking the death penalty against all three Edenfields. 

“This is one of the most horrific crimes that I’ve seen in 21 years of prosecutions,” he told The Associated Press. 

Christopher’s grandmother, Sue Rodriquez, has nothing but contempt for the Edenfields. 

“They’re monsters from hell,” she said. 

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