{"id":8374,"date":"2017-07-05T13:33:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=8374"},"modified":"2017-07-05T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T17:33:51","slug":"new-trial-date-child-murder-suspect-david-creato-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/07\/05\/new-trial-date-child-murder-suspect-david-creato-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"New trial date for child murder suspect David Creato Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dateline\">CAMDEN, N.J.<\/div>\n<p>A judge has set a new trial date for David Creato Jr., the New Jersey man accused of killing his son.<\/p>\n<p>The proceedings will begin on September 11, the judge said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Creato&#8217;s previous murder trial ended with a hung jury back in late May.<\/p>\n<p>Creato is accused of killing 3-year-old Brendan Creato in October, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8375 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/020816_creato_1200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/020816_creato_1200-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/020816_creato_1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/020816_creato_1200-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/020816_creato_1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brendan&#8217;s pajama-clad body was found in a wooded area near Creato&#8217;s Haddon Township home<\/p>\n<p>Creato maintains the child wandered away, but prosecutors dispute that claim. During the trial they pointed out Brendan&#8217;s socks were clean, which would be impossible if he had wandered away from home and into the woods.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors had maintained Creato killed his son because he feared his 17-year-old girlfriend, who was away at college, was going to leave him. She had made it clear she didn&#8217;t want to be around his child and wanted him to give up custody.<\/p>\n<p>The case against Creato was circumstantial. There were no witnesses, DNA, or surveillance video to connect him to the death.<\/p>\n<p>MariePip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">CAMDEN, N.J. A judge has set a new trial date for David Creato Jr., the New Jersey man accused of killing his son. The proceedings will begin on September 11, the judge said on Wednesday. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/07\/05\/new-trial-date-child-murder-suspect-david-creato-jr\/\" title=\"New trial date for child murder suspect David Creato Jr.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":675,"featured_media":8376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[805,3307,3306,51,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-8374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa","8":"tag-accused","9":"tag-brendan-creato","10":"tag-david-creato","11":"tag-murder","12":"tag-retrial","13":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8377,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions\/8377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}