Reporters Matthew Kauffman and Lisa Chedekel of The Hartford Courant dug into court records this week to come up with the story of Jayda Norton, who was born in Bristol.
"Jayda was born at Bristol Hospital March 15, 2002, when Norton was 16 and Komisarjevsky was 21," the story said.
"The baby lived with Norton at her parent's home in Bristol until Christmas Day 2003, according to court records. Norton then moved in with a boyfriend in Bristol," the Courant reported.
So Komisarjevsky was arrested in Bristol one month before Jayda was born. Instead of caring for his very young, pregnant girlfriend, he was out wearing night vision goggles and breaking into homes in Bristol and Burlington.
This poor girl, whose mother is former Bristol resident Jennifer Norton, 22, is living now with Joshua Komisarjevsky's family in Cheshire.
It was with Norton's family on Wilderness Way that Komisarjevsky lived before his arrest on burglary charges. The family moved away at least a couple of years ago.
Incredible as it sounds now, the father won a custody fight for her six weeks before he allegedly helped massacre the Petit family, according to the Courant's story.
God help little Jayda is all I can say.
And thanks for nailing down the story, Matt and Lisa.
The only remaining question I have is what is Jennifer Norton's birthday? It sure seems that Komisarjevsky may have been guilty of having sex with an underage girl when he was 21. Was Norton 15 at the time she got pregnant? And if she was, how come nobody prosecuted him for that? Clearly the police and prosecutors knew he was living with a 16-year-old mother of his child, since they told a Press reporter that at the time.
Assuming the stories in the Press in 2002 and the Courant today are accurate, Jennifer Norton had to turn 16 sometime between February and July of 2001. She was pregnant in June 2001, though we can hardly be sure she hadn't been seeing Komisarjevsky before that.
He started robbing homes in the area in July 2001, the police said, which may be an indication he was seeing a lot of Jennifer Norton by then.
This guy may well have been a child molester who should have been charged with that at the time - a move that might have kept in prison longer and would have landed him on the sex offender list.
I have some sympathy for high school kids who fool around with slightly younger schoolmates -- not exactly the kind of predators you worry about -- but none at all for 21-year-old men who are having sex with 15-year-old girls.
In any case, this is clearly something we need to know more about.
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8 comments:
I think rape, torture and murder is a little more serious.
Please Steve, a 21 year old guy having intercourse with a 16 yr old is hardly protocol for a murder-torture-rapist.
Of course it is.
The point is that there may have been a charge that wasn't lodged against him in 2002 that might have helped prevent what he did in Cheshire.
Jennifer Norton was 16 at the time of conception.
There were a lot more charges than a supposed statatory rape that could have led to his being incarcerated.
Having more N.O.W. type rules is hardly going to stop violent offenders. I don't think some sicko who was responsible for many break-ins and was possibly a drug addicted nut is a reason to start making up draconian stat. rape penalties (for people in that age range). He was living with the girl's parents! She had his kid!Maybe she should have not had sex with him in the first place.
I can't believe the Left's answer to this tragedy is to point to the fact that this animal had a relationship with a female who was just slightly underage. It's the parents poragative to have this guy arrested for this.
What we should be worrying about is violent criminal acts. What about the other guy? What was his back-ground? Who was he f___ing? Who cares? It's a patern of violent acts that is the key. Also how about instituting the death penalty more effectively?? What's the Left's answer to that Steve?
The left? What are you talking about?
I think everyone shares the sentiment about what should be done with this pair now, assuming they're guilty.
It doesn't change the necessity of searching through the rubble to see what, if anything, might have prevented this monstrosity from happening.
I'm willing to accept, though, that nothing we all ever do is going to keep some people from committing terrible evils.
I was 15 when I met Josh, and we were sexually involved at that time. Now that I'm an adult, I realize he was a child molester, considering his resent girlfriend was only 18 and he's 26. And of couse what he did to that poor 11 year old child. I just pray he did nothing to my daughter. But to protect my parents, my mother was 15 when she met my father and he was 21. And they are still happily married.
I need to clarify for readers that I cannot say for sure that the person who signed the most recent post as "jennifer norton" is Jayda's mother. It could be someone pretending to be her.
Jennifer, if it is you, can you please contact me directly at scollins@bristolpress.com or call me at the newspaper 584-0501 x. 254? I would very much like to speak with you.
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