What Would You Do? Parents' Worst Nightmare.
It's one of the most unbearably thorny questions a parent ever faces -- what would you do if it happened to your child? On Wednesday, Connecticut attorney Jonathon Edington, 29, was charged with first degree murder for allegedly stabbing his neighbor to death after his wife told him that the man had molested their 2-year-old daughter, according to Edington's bond attorney, Mickey Sherman. Edington was released on a $1 million bond -- a rare move in a capital murder case, experts said. The family of the victim, Barry James, 58, released a statement Thursday vigorously denying the abuse charges. Still, the arrest made headlines across the country and reawakened the national debate on child sexual abuse and vigilante justice. Nearly 85,000 children were sexually abused in the United States in 2004, the most recent statistics available, according to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. To gain a better understanding of what parents go through when this happens to their child, ABC News' Law & Justice Unit spoke with seven families about the horror of learning their child had been sexually molested, and the subsequent struggle with sometimes burning desires for immediate relief.
so sad that things like that happens, just hope that it never happens to my kids or to anyone else kids
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