Petit Family Killer Tries To Ban Daughter's Video, Despite His Life Being ‘On The Line'
Nov. 23 2011, Published 4:30 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
Stone-faced killer Joshua Komisarjevsky has barely shown a flicker of emotion throughout his murder trial and subsequent penalty phase but seeing his daughter via video finally sparked a reaction from him, Breaking Celebrity News has learned.
The nine-year-old girl was interviewed last week and despite her triple-murderer father objecting about the footage being played in the New Haven, Connecticut court, the jury saw her laughing and chatting to the camera on Wednesday, reported the Hartford Courant.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Komisarjevsky was found guilty of 17 counts on October 13 for the grisly murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, and the vicious beating of their father, Dr. William Petit, on July 23, 2007 in their Cheshire home. The jury is now deciding if he spends the rest of his life in prison or gets the death penalty.
Having been separated since the killings, the girl barely seemed to remember that the convicted murderer was her dad. She told a social worker that the man, "Josh," is the son of her grandparents and that she used to play with him at their home but didn't recall living with him.
In a rare statement to the court, Komisarjevsky stood in a dark suit and mumbled that he was "not at all comfortable" with them seeing his daughter.
"Had this interview been her decision to make, and she was old enough to understand that decision, that would be one thing. However, that is not the case in this situation. The decision has been made for her.
"For me, this isn't just some detached intellectualized argument on my part. Of all parties involved, I have the most at stake. My life is quite literally on the line."
Joshua was granted sole custody of the girl two months before the murders after being embroiled in a bitter custody battle with her mother, Jennifer Norton, who was being treated at a cris