After Jones County Sheriff’s Investigator Tonya Madison escorted George Kilgore back to jail Monday morning, she had a small press conference behind Justice Court. Four reporters — Mark Thornton and Sean Murphy from the Leader-Call, Eddie Robertson from WDAM and Carmen Farrish from WHLT — were on hand. No reporter from Laurel’s corporate-owned newspaper staffed the court hearing nor the press conference.
Yet Wednesday, that paper had a story with quotes about the court case. In it appeared this quotation: “For nine and a half hours, Mrs. Kilgore was left at the house while her daughter was at school,” Madison said. “She wasn’t able to get up and move around and get to the bathroom like we are. She would have to lay there in her own feces. When the deputies arrived, she could not stand. She could not move around on her own. They had to actually lift her up and put her on a stretcher. She was weak and just in a bad state.”
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