It's possible that one of the alleged killers in the Cheshire murder case, Joshua Komisarjevsky, has another tie to Bristol beyond his conviction here in 2002 for a string of burglaries.
The Hartford Courant has a story today that mentions in passing that "associates of the family said Komisarjevsky has a 5-year-old daughter, Jayda, who has been living with him and his parents" in their Cheshire home.
Given that Komisarjevsky was living in Bristol in 2002 at the home of his 16-year-old girlfriend on Wilderness Way, there's certainly a question about whether Jayda's mother lived in town. We can be fairly sure after all that this charming fellow didn't father the child after his arrest.
Whether or not the girl has roots in Bristol, I do feel sorry for her. Can you imagine having a father who would do something like Komisarjevsky allegedly did in the Petit home?
I met a guy once whose dad committed a horrific, well-publicized murder when he was quite young. He didn't really know much about what had happened. But it gnawed at him, as you'd expect.
The sins of the father are, of course, his own. Yet it makes it all the more sickening that someone could terrorize, rape and kill when he has his own little girl at home, a life that ought to be so precious to him that nothing else matters.
Instead, for Komisarjevsky, if what authorities say about him is true, it seemed that nothing mattered.
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1 comment:
Yeah, ouch.
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