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    Caleb Barnes (20) killed Cheryl Silvonek (54), the mother of his girlfriend Jamie (14), because she didn't approve of their relationship

    http://6abc.com/news/man-charged-wit...pering/560753/

    TEEN DAUGHTER CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH MOM'S KILLING


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    ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) -- Police say a man is charged with stabbing a Lehigh County woman to death and the victim's daughter is also facing charges in connection to the crime.

    20-year-old Caleb Barnes of Fort Meade, Maryland, is charged with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse and statutory sexual assault.

    Authorities say police found a parked vehicle in South Whitehall Township with a large pool of blood inside at about 4:15 a.m. Monday. Police said the car later disappeared, but officers noticed that dirt had been disturbed and found the body of 54-year-old Cheryl Silvonek buried.

    She had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck and buried in the shallow grave.

    Investigators then went to Silvonek's Upper Macungie Township home where they found Barnes along with his 14-year-old girlfriend, who is also the victim's daughter.

    Investigators say not only did Barnes confess, but he told them his girlfriend tried to help him after the murder by buying a few items at a local store.

    "Including alcohol, bleach, bleach wipes, apparently in an effort to eliminate evidence of the crime," Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said.

    The 14-year-old is being charged as a minor for evidence tampering, abuse of a corpse, and hindering apprehension.

    Jean Macri says she used to work with the victim's husband at a local supermarket and that he was quick to help her when she went through a family crisis.

    "He went out of his way to help me with my hours and anything that I needed. So if you need anything, just call me," Macri said.

    Barnes is being held without bail.
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    did you make her into a wallet Bill? cuz if you did I'm off team Bill.

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    uthorities say police found a parked vehicle in South Whitehall Township with a large pool of blood inside at about 4:15 a.m. Monday. Police said the car later disappeared,
    WTF keystone cops shit is this? They see a car with large pool of blood, don't tape it off or investigate it so that this bozo can return and finish off his job?

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    MOOSE!!!!!!!


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    did you make her into a wallet Bill? cuz if you did I'm off team Bill.

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    Jamie @jamiesilvonek ? Mar 14
    Let the SAT conquering commence! Despite my nerves, I shall remain as optimistic as an near-vomiting person can.


    Are you glad you threw that all away now?
    How did you fucking think that by murdering someone you could go live your happy life with your psychotic boyfriend???

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    I just realized that there is a grammar error in my title.



    I hate mistakes!
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    Why is a 14-year-old studying for the SATs?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeaceBeWithMe View Post
    I just realized these there is a grammar error in my title.



    I hate mistakes!
    That was me I think, when I moved it over to the article section. Boooo. I fixed it.

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    Olivia, that's going to cost me hours in therapy.



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    And now Olivia has quoted an error in my post complaining about my error.

    I need a Xanax.



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    did you make her into a wallet Bill? cuz if you did I'm off team Bill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bowieluva View Post
    WTF keystone cops shit is this? They see a car with large pool of blood, don't tape it off or investigate it so that this bozo can return and finish off his job?
    It wasn't the police, it was a neighbor.


    Hours after Cheryl Silvonek tried to end a relationship between her 14-year-old daughter and a 20-year-old soldier, the Upper Macungie mother fought for her life as he repeatedly stabbed her in the neck early Sunday, police say.

    Investigators say they found defensive wounds all over Silvonek's hands, showing she did not go quietly as Caleb G. Barnes allegedly stabbed her in a family car parked in the driveway as her daughter looked on.

    Barnes, on a weekend leave from Fort Meade in Maryland to visit the girl, was charged Monday with killing Silvonek, and her daughter was locked in a juvenile facility, accused of helping Barnes bury her mother's body along a rural road a few miles from the attack.

    Because of her age, police did not release the girl's name. The family's attorney said she is "devastated" by the killing.

    "She's just crying for her mom, saying she misses her mom," said lawyer John Waldron. "This is a child, who just turned 14. She's in shock."

    Barnes, who enlisted in the Army in El Paso, Texas, is charged with homicide, abuse of a corpse and statutory sexual assault. He is in Lehigh County Jail without bail.

    The girl is charged as a juvenile with abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence and hindering apprehension. Prosecutors have 10 days to decide whether they'll charge her as an adult.

    Police say the killing took place between midnight Saturday and 2:30 a.m. Sunday in the Silvonek family's driveway at 1516 Randi Lane.

    An argument broke out as the three of them sat in the car, Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said.

    "I can only imagine that it was because of his age," Martin said. "We have a 20-year-old man a 14-year-old."

    After Silvonek's death, Barnes and the daughter drove another car to the Walmart in Lower Macungie Township, Martin said, and bought alcohol, bleach and other items to allegedly clean up the crime scene.

    The pair then drove Silvonek's car with her body inside to the 5700 block of Haasadahl Road in South Whitehall.

    Ray Werley, of Haasadahl Road, called police to report the car after his Pomeranian woke him at 4 a.m.

    "I grabbed a spotlight and I could see down across the road was a vehicle facing the wrong way," Werley said. "I seen all the blood in it. It was smeared on the passenger-side window like there was a fight, like there was a struggle. It was drops all on the dash … and all over the seat. And the car was locked.

    "That's what scared me. I thought, was I down here and he was trying to get into the house?"

    Martin said Barnes and the daughter were burying the 54-year-old woman's body in a nearby wooded area while Werley was looking in the car. South Whitehall police responded in about five minutes, Martin said, but by then the car was gone.

    Officers looked around the area and noticed a mound of disturbed dirt on the snowy bank of Haasen Creek. Silvonek's body was found in a shallow grave.

    Police fanned out onto nearby Applewood and Huckleberry roads, where they found a vehicle partially submerged in a pond. A large amount of blood was inside the car, court records say.

    Officers traced the car to the Silvonek residence, where they found Barnes and the girl, as well as Silvonek's husband, David, who was sleeping.

    Martin said David Silvonek did not know about his daughter's relationship with Barnes and did not know he was in their home.

    Barnes and the girl met at a concert in October and began a relationship, Martin said. He said the statutory sexual assault charge stems from evidence that Barnes had sexual relations with the girl on three occasions over the past several weeks, including Saturday night or Sunday morning, shortly before the slaying.

    "The mother became aware of the relationship and was attempting to have her daughter break it off," Martin said. "Obviously we don't know what occurred in the driveway. There are different versions of the event."
    On Friday night, Silvonek took her daughter and Barnes to a Wilkes-Barre area concert by country music singer Eric Church, Martin said.

    Barnes, who holds the rank of specialist, was on a weekend pass from Fort Meade and was due back at the base at 8 p.m. Sunday, according to MyRon Young, Army public affairs officer. He said Barnes joined the military in February 2012 and declined to comment further.

    Silvonek worked as a medical secretary at Lehigh Valley Health Network. LVHN spokesman Brian Downs said her co-workers were mourning her loss Monday.

    "We are deeply saddened that we have lost one of our Lehigh Valley Health Network colleagues with the tragic passing of Cheryl Silvonek. We express our deepest sympathy to Cheryl's family, colleagues and friends and want them to know that they are in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time," Downs said in a prepared statement.

    A man who appeared to be in his 40s answered the door Monday morning at the Silvonek home and directed all questions to his attorney, Waldron.

    "Please respect my family's privacy," the man said as he closed the door to their two-story, three-car garage home.

    Late Monday afternoon, numerous cars were lined up outside the large brick home. A woman who came out of the house said the family was not ready to talk.

    The daughter had her first juvenile court hearing Monday afternoon, and her father and grandparents were in the courtroom to hear the charges read, Waldron said.

    "Everyone was crying. It was just brutal," he said.

    Waldron said the girl's family did not oppose court officials' recommendation that she remain in a juvenile facility while the case is being investigated.

    "It's in her best interest to remain there. She's going to get psychological counseling while she's here," he said.
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    Here is Caleb's facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/caleb.barne...=browse_search

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    ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl conspired with her soldier boyfriend to have her mother killed, texting him hours before the woman's death, "I want her gone," authorities said Thursday.

    Jamie Silvonek was charged as an adult with homicide and criminal conspiracy, Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said.

    Cheryl Silvonek, 54, was fatally stabbed in the driveway of her Upper Macungie Township home early on March 15, hours after taking Jamie Silvonek and the eighth-grader's 20-year-old boyfriend, Army Spc. Caleb Barnes, to a concert, according to court documents.

    Barnes, who was on leave from Fort Meade in Maryland at the time of the slaying, was previously charged with homicide. He confessed to stabbing Cheryl Silvonek in the neck while they were in Silvonek's car, and Jamie Silvonek admitted she was there when he did it and helped dispose of the body, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

    The teen's attorney, John Waldron, said Thursday he believes his client was under Barnes' control, given the age disparity.

    "There has to be some type of duress or coercion," he said.

    Waldron said he intends to have Jamie Silvonek examined by a forensic psychologist and will petition to have the case moved to juvenile court.

    "She cried incessantly and told me how much she missed her mom, and told me she was coerced, she was afraid she was going to be killed, she was afraid her dad was going to be killed," Waldron told The Associated Press. "So there's a lot of things we have to decipher here."

    Barnes' public defender did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.

    Authorities said Barnes and Jamie Silvonek met in October -- when she was 13 -- but that she told him she was 17.

    Cheryl Silvonek found out about their relationship in early March and ordered the couple to end it, according to court documents. A day later, the teenager told Barnes she wanted her parents dead, the documents said.
    On March 14, Cheryl Silvonek learned that Barnes intended to take her daughter to a concert in Scranton. "He is not coming to this house," Cheryl Silvonek texted to her daughter, who had taken the SAT college entrance exam that morning, according to a police affidavit.

    The teenager then texted Barnes: "She threatened to throw me out of the house. I want her gone," the affidavit said. Later, she allegedly wrote to him: "Just do it."

    Cheryl Silvonek agreed to drive her daughter and Barnes to the show. On their way, the teenager and her boyfriend continued texting each other.
    "I love you. We can do this. We'll just drive her car then, right?" Jamie wrote, the affidavit said.

    Barnes replied in a text, "No. That leaves us as the suspects."


    The three drove back to the Silvonek home after the show, and Barnes allegedly stabbed Cheryl Silvonek. The couple then ate at a restaurant and went shopping for gloves, bleach and other cleaning supplies, authorities said.

    Police found the body in a shallow grave a few miles from the Silvonek home. The victim's blood-soaked car was found nearby.

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    They texted each other about the crime.



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    Anyone find her FB?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nic B View Post
    Anyone find her FB?
    The daughter's? Moose did. It's a few posts up.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nic B View Post
    Anyone find her FB?
    Nope, just the Twitter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moosella View Post
    Nope, just the Twitter.
    Well, shit.

    I'd look, but if Moose can't find it, it's not there.


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    Quote Originally Posted by PeaceBeWithMe View Post
    The daughter's? Moose did. It's a few posts up.
    We were posting at the same time! I just found a Twitter account for her. I can't seem to find any FB presence.

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    I don't know how they will prove coercion with those texts. She seemed to be the instigator.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moosella View Post
    I don't know how they will prove coercion with those texts. She seemed to be the instigator.
    She sure does.
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    The one thing though is that she is 14, and 14 year old girls are amoral monsters who have no idea what is going on or how serious life is.

    I have a couple of friends, one of whom used to be a member here, who are raising teenage girls, and they are HORRIFIED by the way they act around 13-14. They are just totally fucking crazy and illogical.

    But they'll hit 16 and be rational, normal people again.

    So it's more like a 14 year old is a moron with no concept of mortality, and an adult male should know better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bowieluva View Post
    The one thing though is that she is 14, and 14 year old girls are amoral monsters who have no idea what is going on or how serious life is.

    I have a couple of friends, one of whom used to be a member here, who are raising teenage girls, and they are HORRIFIED by the way they act around 13-14. They are just totally fucking crazy and illogical.

    But they'll hit 16 and be rational, normal people again.

    So it's more like a 14 year old is a moron with no concept of mortality, and an adult male should know better.
    I totally agree that 14yr old girls react almost entirely on hormones and emotion. I remember who I was when I was 14, and I was fucking insane.

    I'm not excusing what this guy did at all, but I don't think she's innocent just because she's a dumb 14yr old.

    TBH, my brother is 20, and I don't see him as being much more mature than a 14yr old girl. He's super emotional and irrational about pretty much everything pertaining to his personal life.
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    Both of my girls were nutters at 14. The eldest one flew into fits of fury over every damned thing. Got herself arrested at an amusement park. Had to bail her out of juvie at, like, 1am. The other one was busted for shop lifting, was tossed outta class for throwing a chair in computer lab, was on probation for fighting, etc, etc, and so on.

    Now? Both AWESOME young adults.

    Amazing what a few years can do.


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