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Two held for trial over Facebook posting

A Southwest Philadelphia woman who allegedly posted an ad on her Facebook page offering $1,000 to anyone willing to kill her child's father was ordered to stand trial Monday, as was the Darby Borough man who answered the ad.

A Southwest Philadelphia woman who allegedly posted an ad on her Facebook page offering $1,000 to anyone willing to kill her child's father was ordered to stand trial Monday, as was the Darby Borough man who answered the ad.

London Eley, 19, is charged with criminal solicitation for murder, and Timothy Bynum, 18, is charged with attempted murder, conspiracy, and possession of an instrument of crime. The pair were arrested June 10 after police were tipped about the posting on Eley's Facebook wall. They are to be arraigned Sept. 6.

Municipal Court Judge Patrick F. Dugan brushed aside arguments from their attorneys that they never intended to go through with the hit. "Whether it was a joke or whether it's a crime is something that a court is going to decide," Dugan said. - Staff report