Right before turning 15, Joshua set fire to a gas station. Since police recognized he had serious mental health issues, he was briefly hospitalized in a mental health hospital and given medication.
On July 23, , Joshua and his friend Steven Hayes broke into the home of the Petit family — William, Jennifer, and their daughters, year-old Haley and year-old Michaela. Joshua and Steven held the family hostage for hours. They raped and strangled Jennifer and then sexually assaulted Michaela.
In his testimony before the court, Dr. Dudley said of Komisarjevsky, "He never really received psychological treatment at all. Interestingly enough, a questionnaire filled out by Jude Komisarjevsky in preparation for the adoption that would ultimately bring the child to be known as Joshua into their Torrington home indicated the soon-to-be-mother felt ill equipped to deal with a child whose background included mental illness.
The last question reads: Are there things in an adopted or foster child's background you would not feel comfortable about? In an answer that might ultimately prove somewhat telling, Jude Komisarjevsky wrote, "I don't feel adequate to help anyone who's ever had to experience such torture emotional in life. Of course, at the time of the adoption, the Komisarjevsky family had little to no knowledge of the family history of their new baby boy.
Though there was no past history, the new mother started a journal on Aug. For 39 pages--the last date being October, Jude Komisarjevsky gives glimpses into the development of Joshua as he grew from an infant into a little boy. They are glimpses of a rapidly-growing vocabulary mix with minor instances of mischief and made-up stories that intermingle with tales of cute quips that come only from the mouths of the young and innocent.
That hand-written journal mentions Komisarjevsky's sister, Naomi, and occasionally a female foster child Beverly, but largely concentrates on Joshua. Though the family accepted a male foster child named Scott into the home in June of , more than a year later the journal makes no discernable mention of the foster son before it abruptly ends. According to Dr. Dudley's report, Scott was sexually abusing not only Naomi and Beverly but also Joshua, who reported that the abuse was, at times, violent.
It was after the Komisarjevsky family left Torrington and Joshua grew into adolescence and became a teen that his emotional problems began to manifest themselves in mood swings and acts of violence, according to Dr. Dudley's report. She said he had gone to jail for "something he had done at work.
The girl lived with her grandparents at the time of the murders. She is not being identified to protect her privacy. The videotaped testimony was shown over the objection of Komisarjevsky, himself, who addressed the court for the first time during his trial, though his voice was heard previously during a taped confession. Komisarjevsky, 31, has been convicted of 17 counts including the murder of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, Hayley Petit, 17, and Michaela Petit, 11, during a brutal invasion of the family's Cheshire, Conn.
The verdict included six aggravating factors including that Komisarjevsky and his accomplice Steven Hayes committed the murders in "an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner. The girls were tied to their beds and the house and their beds were splashed with gasoline before the house was set afire. Hawke-Petit's husband, Dr. William Petit, testified that he was bound and badly beaten separately in the home's basement, but managed to escape. Komisarjevsky's daughter was interviewed by Caroline Burry, a social worker, last weekend, but did not know she was being taped.
Burry took the stand after the videotape was played and testified that if Komisarjevsky was executed it could be "very damaging" to the girl, who is currently living with her maternal aunt.
Her name has been changed and it is believed that none of her friends knows about her father's crimes. The girl's testimony has been a point of contention for weeks as an attorney for the girl's guardian sought to prevent the interview, citing the possible psychological repercussions and a fear that her identity could become known. But Jeremiah Donovan, one of Komisarjevsky's attorneys, said that showing the videotape was important because it would allow the jurors to see his client as a loving father who, records show, has seen his daughter 55 times during his incarceration -- instead of seeing him as just a cold-blooded killer.
But today, Komisarjevsky went against his own attorney's wishes.
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