As if the missions of most review panels aren’t a bit murky, questions are now arising about the Silk Forest Plant review committee, created to look into the near-fatal beating of Jill Marker in 1995.
Some Winston-Salem City Council members are wondering if the committee’s scope has inappropriately widened to review police policy and procedure in general instead of focusing on the guilt or innocence of Kalvin Smith, now serving time in prison for the crime.
Also at issue is why the committee has requested a paternity test for Marker’s son, who was born while Marker was in a coma. The wife of the original suspect in the beating, Kenneth Lamoreaux, suggested that Lamoreux might be the father of the child.
We’re left to wonder exactly why this is significant, though it’s obvious that if Lamoreaux is the father of the child, it suggests that perhaps he and Marker were in a dispute over the unborn child that led to the beating.
Right now, it’s up to Smith’s lawyer or District Attorney Tom Keith to pursue the paternity matter.
