Slain NJ Girl's Family Silent on Facebook Exchange With Accused Murderer

Posted: Thu 12:28 PM, Oct 25, 2012

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Slain NJ Girl's Family Silent on Facebook Exchange With Accused Murderer

Investigators look in the rear yard of a home Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, in Clayton, N.J., after a body preliminarily identified as a missing 12-year-old girl's was found in a home's recycling bin. The Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office announced early Tuesday that they believed the body of Autumn Pasquale was found around 10 p.m. Monday, in a recycling bin at a home just blocks away from her house and from Borough Hall, where thousands of people gathered earlier in the evening for a tearful candlelight vigil to pray for the girl's safe return. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

CLAYTON, N.J. (AP) - The family of a slain New Jersey girl says it won't comment on the apparent Facebook exchange she had with one of the brothers accused of killing her.

Paul Spadofora, a spokesman for the family of Autumn Pasquale's (pas-KWAHL'-ee), says the family doesn't want to talk about any evidence for fear of jeopardizing the case.

A screenshot of an Oct. 17 Facebook exchange that appears to be between Autumn and Justin Robinson shows her commenting on a picture of a bike he posted, calling it "sexy." In the exchange, he invites her to his home to see it.

The 12-year-old girl disappeared Oct. 20. Her body was found two days later near the boy's home.

The 15-year-old Justin and his 17-year-old brother Dante Robinson are charged with murder.

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