Police: Stuart Man Told 6-Year-Old Son to Stab Mom
I heard this on the radio this afternoon and had to find it online. This is terrible. Children are almost always brought into the middle of their parents' arguements (especially when the parents are separated). This is a very extreme case of bringing the child into the middle.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) - A Stuart man whose ex-girlfriend had a restraining order against him tried to coax their 6-year-old son into stabbing her, police said.
Edward Munao, 38, was being held Wednesday in the St. Lucie County Jail on $250,000 bond, charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder. Munao had not been assigned a public defender by Wednesday and it was not known if he had retained a private attorney.
His former girlfriend, Jodi Walsh, 34, told police that her son had called his father in mid-November complaining that she wouldn't let him watch television, according to a police report. The boy later told her that Munao "told him to kill her by stabbing her."
Walsh taped phone conversations with her son and Munao, with permission of the court. The boy called Munao on Nov. 18 because his mother told him to take a shower instead of watching television.
The boy called his father and was "obviously very upset," police said. He yelled to his father to "do something."
"You know what you have to do, I told you what you have to do," Munao said.
Munao then said, "Go to the kitchen," but the child cut him off and said, "No."
According to the report, Munao eventually asked, "Do you want me to kill her for you?" The child yelled, "No, do something else."
Port St. Lucie police spokesman Kacey Donnell said it is common for parents to use a child during domestic problems.
"This is obviously an extreme case," Donnell said. "It's taking it to a different level."
I heard this on the radio this afternoon and had to find it online. This is terrible. Children are almost always brought into the middle of their parents' arguements (especially when the parents are separated). This is a very extreme case of bringing the child into the middle.