Dad fights killer’s bid for parole

Jaynes and accomplice killed Jeffrey Curley in ’97

Child killer Charles Jaynes is set to go before the parole board Tuesday morning, seeking his freedom in an appeal the victim’s dad said is a frightening possibility.

“He’s as bad as they come,” Bob Curley told the Herald Monday. “People don’t know the magnitude of his evil. People should be terrified if this guy is ever let out on the streets again.”

Jeffrey Curley was only 10 years old when Jaynes and accomplice Salvatore Sicari lured the boy into a car in Cambridge in 1997 with the promise of a new bike. The boy was molested, murdered and dumped in a river in Maine. His remains were found in a Rubbermaid box packed with concrete.

Jaynes, now in his mid-40s and formerly of Brockton, is serving life plus 10 years for kidnapping and second-degree murder. His parole hearing is set for 10 a.m.

Sicari, also now in his mid-40s, is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder. He will never be eligible for parole.

Jaynes, a self-professed Wiccan, once tried to change his name while behind bars to Manasseh-Invictus Auric Thutmose V. His request was denied.

Bob Curley, who will testify at the hearing, said he’s been told Jaynes will be on a video screen from the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater.

But as he grows older, Bob Curley said he worries Jaynes may win his freedom years from now as the heart-wrenching story of Jeffrey’s abduction and murder fades.

“I won’t be here forever,” Bob Curley said. “But people need to never forget.”

Bob Curley, now in his 60s, has experienced more than any dad ought to. In 2009, he accused prison bureaucrats of “tearing up” the tender memory of his slain son by first blessing, then rescinding, a funeral furlough for Jaynes.

“They don’t understand the hurt and the pain,” Curley said at the time. “It’s killing me. Enough is enough.”

Curley blasted the bureaucratic flip-flopping back then under former Gov. Deval Patrick, saying, “I have the feelings of being victimized all over again.”

Curley noted at the time that Jaynes had been let out for two other family funerals.

But he will again stand in for his boy as the parole board meets to weigh if Jaynes deserves parole. Bob Curley said he’ll be with his other boy as they both let the members of the board know that Jeffrey didn’t get an opportunity to grow up.

“Jaynes was a serial killer in the making,” the dad added. “There’s no way he should be let out.”

AP FILE COURTROOM OUTBURST: Charles Jaynes, center, jumps from his chair in a series of outbursts as a court officer moves to restrain him during closing arguments at East Brookfield District Court on Dec. 10, 1998. Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari were found guilty of murdering 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley.