Jeffrey Curley's Killer Has First Parole Hearing

Child killer Charles Jaynes went before the parole board for the first time Tuesday. Jaynes was convicted of second degree murder in the kidnapping, rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley in 1997, a crime so heinous that it brought the legislature within one vote of reinstating the death penalty in Massachusetts.

Jaynes appeared over video from the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater. He said he was not there to ask for parole, but to "take responsibility for my murder of Jeffrey Curley."

"I am guilty of that murder. I murdered Jeffrey Curley," Jaynes told the board.

Members of the Curley family testified against Jaynes's release. Jeffrey's brother, Shaun, said Jaynes should be in jail "until the day he dies," while his father, Robert, described Jaynes as "the face of the devil" and "evil as they come."

The parole board may not decide on the case for several weeks, Boston 25 reported.

In 1997, Jaynes and another man, Salvatore Sicari, abducted Curley near his home after promising him a bicycle, according to Boston 25. When Curley resisted Jaynes's attempts to assault him, the men suffocated and raped him before dumping the body into a Maine river.

Sicari was convicted by a different jury of first degree murder and sentenced to life without parole. Robert Curley told WBUR in 2009 he felt Jaynes was the worse of the two men, but had a better lawyer and was convicted of a lesser charge.

Curley was a vocal supporter of the death penalty in the immediate aftermath of the murder. He later reversed his stance, coming out against capital punishment at the conference of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation in 2001.

Curley and his wife, Barbara, filed a wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit against the North American Man/Boy Love Association due to Jaynes's affiliation with the group. The suit was dropped in 2008 after eight years of litigation.

Jaynes last made headlines in 2012 when he unsuccessfully tried to change his name to "Manasseh-Invictus Auris Thurmose V." He had a parole hearing scheduled in 2015, but it was postponed at his request.