Ex-DPW Super Commits Suicide Rather Than Face Child Porn Plea
Morristown man died night before he was due to appear in Superior Court in Morristown.
Former Morristown Public Works Superintendent Charles E. Jones III, who was indicted in February on charges of distributing child porn over the Internet, took his own life last week, the Daily Record reported. Defense attorney Clifford Weininger, told the paper that "the stress, the embarrassment and the disgrace caused him to do this." Weininger said he knew Jones for at least 15 years as a man who was hard-working single father who raised a daughter on his own and put her through college. Weininger told the Daily Record that the state was offering a plea bargain of about five years in prison, and Jones was preparing to accept the offer, though Weininger anticipated arguing for no more than three years behind bars. Jones was due in court …
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Tka
8:52 pm on Friday, May 3, 2013
Sir, you're a douche. Your comments lack any validity. No one likes a pedophile, But he is dead, so there is no stronger sentence and likely his daughter who did nothing will read this. more ›