Peggy Edenfield sentenced to 60 years in prison in death of Christopher Barrios
Peggy Edenfield was sentenced to 60 years in prison today after a plea agreement for her role in the 2007 death of 6-year-old Christopher Barrios.
The state dismissed the two felony murder charges against her as part of the negotiated plea. Edenfield pleaded guilty but mentally retarded to false imprisonment, child molestation, cruelty to children, concealing a death and tampering with evidence. The judge, at the recommendation of the prosecutors sentenced her to the maximum on each charge, which adds to 60 years.
She is 62.
After the sentence was announced, Peggy Edenfield’s sister, Sharon Phillips, stood up and shouted that Edenfield’s lawyer, Richard Allen, has only seen her twice in the five years she’s been in prison and accused a Glynn County police officer of spraying Lysol on her sister.
At that point, Sue Rodriguez, the boy’s grandmother who was sitting across from Phillips in the courtroom, stood up and said, “What about Christopher?”
Phillips answered, “I’m so sorry about that. Peggy doesn’t even know what an indictment means.”
Christopher’s father, Mike Barrios, said he didn’t want any kind of plea bargain.
“I didn’t want no deal. Christopher wouldn’t have wanted that,” he said. “There is no closure, but it will be good to see her die in prison.”
Rodriguez, Christopher’s paternal grandmother, said she could accept the plea.
“We wanted Christopher to get his day in court, but he still got it even thought his is a plea deal," she said. "Sixty years; she won’t ever get out. She won’t never do this to another child.”
The first felony murder count charged her with causing Christopher's death by encouraging or helping her husband, David, and their son, George, sodomize and choke him.
David Edenfield has been on Georgia's Death Row since shortly after a jury found him guilty of malice murder in October 2009. A convicted child molester, George Edenfield, remains in a state mental hospital undergoing treatment until psychologists determine he is competent to stand trial.
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