Prosecutor Rick Hubbard claims that father from South Carolina, who confessed to killing his five children, not crazy, but a selfish and wicked man.
After finding his 6-year-old son dead in bed in August of 2014, Timothy Jones Jr., immediately went to the store to buy cigarettes, and on the way back I heard the voice of the demon telling him to kill his other four children, told a jury of the County of Lexington (South Carolina) court-appointed psychiatrist Richard Frierson on Thursday, may 31, on the 12th day of the trial on the appointment of Jones to the death penalty.
«He heard the demonic voice. Spooky, mysterious voice said to him: «Kill the children»», — witness Professor of psychiatry at the Medical school, University of South Carolina, with 30 years of experience in the study of mental health problems, Richard Frierson.
According to the confession of the father, returning to your caravan, Jones went to the children, and strangled each Measure (8 years), Elias (7), Gabriel (2 years) and Abigail Elaine (1 year).
«I knew I had schizophrenia. I was a psychotic, — he said later Jones Frierson. I thought that it would be better to deprive them of life.»
Earlier that night, Jones punished his 6-year-old son Nahtan, forcing him to do physical exercise until the child died of exhaustion and mistreatment. According to the attacker, then he thought that if going to jail for killing the boy, four other children were alone, as they do not need their mother. So Johnson decided that would be better for them to die.
«So he made a conscious decision to kill them. It is morally justified that different from what he didn’t know what he’s doing is morally wrong,» said Frierson.
But on Friday, may 31, another specialist psychiatrist Julie Rand Dorney gave absolutely other evidences. She stated that during the murder, Jones was insane and could not distinguish right from wrong.
Prosecutors do not quite agree. According to them, in the worst case mental issues Jones were temporary and caused by synthetic marijuana.
Lawyers defending Timothy Jones Jr., invited more than two dozen witnesses, including friends, relatives and experts in mental health. They told about his excessive drug use and unstable behavior after the divorce, as well as the fear to repeat the fate of the mother and to be in a psychiatric hospital.
But the Prosecutor Hubbard insists that Jones was aware of everything that happens. First, he never called 911,and tried to hide the bodies of their children. Their remains were found in garbage bags on the side of a hill nine days after death.
