JEFFREY CURLEY - 10 yo (1997)/ Convicted: Charles Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari - Cambridge MA

Child-killer from Brockton seeks to change name

By Erin Shannon, Enterprise staff writer
Posted Aug 22, 2012 @ 06:01 AM
Last update Aug 22, 2012 @ 07:51 AM

BRIDGEWATER — The father of a murdered 10-year-old boy said he may object in court to a petition by one of the killers to change his name.

Charles Jaynes – formerly of Brockton and serving a life sentence in the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater for the 1997 slaying of Jeffrey Curley – petitioned Plymouth Probate Court to change his name to Manasseh-Invictus Auric Thutmose V.

On the change-of-name petition filed in June, Jaynes, 37, listed his reason for changing his name as “Wiccan religious tennet.”

Wicca, also called “Witchcraft” or “The Craft,” is described as an underground religion based on natural innate powers, according to The Church of Wicca website, www.wicca.org.

Jaynes’ petition lists his address at the Bridgewater prison and his occupation as inmate. It also says he has never changed his name before.

See a copy of Charles Jaynes' name-change court petition.

When reached by phone on Tuesday, when The Enterprise broke the story, Robert Curley, Jeffrey’s father, said the Department of Corrections had called him earlier on Tuesday about the name-change petition. He chuckled when told what name Jaynes wants.

“It doesn’t phase me one bit,” Curley said. “He is Charles Jaynes and he is going to have to do a lot more to change that.

“He is just a piece of crap on this earth as far as I’m concerned,” Curley said.

A legal notice that ran in Monday’s Enterprise stated that all petitions of name change can be objected by the public. It said that anyone who wished to object to Jaynes’ petition must issue a written objection in person at Plymouth District Court before 10 a.m. on Monday.

Curley said he would consider objecting to Jaynes’ name change.

“It doesn’t matter what his name is,” Curley said. “Nothing will change what he has done so I think Charles Jaynes is the name he should be stuck with.”

On Oct. 1, 1997, Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari of Cambridge lured the boy into a car with the promise of a new bike. When Curley fought back against their sexual advances, Jaynes smothered him with a gasoline-soaked rag, according to trial testimony at the time.

The men took Curley’s body to Jaynes’ apartment in Manchester, N.H., and molested his remains. Curley’s body was found six days later in a Maine river in a cement-filled Rubbermaid container wrapped in duct tape.

Curley’s gruesome murder re-ignited the debate over the death penalty in Massachusetts. In response, a bill to re-establish the death penalty in Massachusetts was filed in the Legislature; it was defeated by one vote in the House of Representatives in 1998.

Sicari was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole in November 1998. He is currently 36 and serving his sentence in MCI-Norfolk.

Jaynes’ trial was moved from Cambridge, where Sicari had been tried, to East Brookfield because of pretrial publicity. In December 1998, Jaynes was found guilty of second-degree murder and kidnapping and sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility after 23 years.

A Department of Corrections spokeswoman, Diane Wiffin, said the legal process for an inmate to change his name requires petitioning the courts.

“We have not received notification from the courts that Mr. Jaynes has done so,” Wiffin told The Enterprise. “Any decision related to the matter will be a court decision.”

Wiffin also said the DOC will notify a victim or victim’s family registered with the DOC of changes, including name or level-of-security change.

The murder case has continued to generate publicity over the years.

In September 2009, Jaynes asked to leave prison to attend his father’s funeral in Brockton. He was initially granted permission but, after a public uproar, state officials nixed the plan and ordered a review of the Department of Corrections process for approving escorts for inmates to attend funeral services for family members.

Last October, Jaynes filed for a new trial. The current status of his appeal could not be determined, and his attorney, Behzad Mirhashem, was unavailable for comment this week.

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