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Sex Offender Kills Self Over Neighborhood Signs
Fox News ^
| April 22, 2005
| AP
Posted on 04/22/2005 11:19:32 AM PDT by halieus
OCALA, Fla. — A convicted sex offender apparently committed suicide in despair over signs posted in his neighborhood calling him a child rapist.
Clovis Claxton (search), 38, was found dead by his father with one of the signs beside his body. It was less than a day after his release from a psychiatric hospital.
His mother blames Marion County (search) Commissioner Randy Harris (search) for her son's death. Harris proposed putting up flyers in the neighborhoods of sex offenders to alert neighbors.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: claxton; clovis; florida; poeticjustice; rapist; sexoffenders; suicide
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:19:35 AM PDT
by
halieus
To: halieus
Somehow I really can't feel bad about this.
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:20:11 AM PDT
by
cjshapi
To: halieus
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:20:39 AM PDT
by
minus_273
To: cjshapi
To: halieus
If they had those signs in Homasassa maybe that 9 year girl wouldn't have been brutalized.
To: halieus
1 DOWN, UMPTEEN TO GO.....ONE LESS REPEAT OFFENDER TO WORRY ABOUT.
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:22:11 AM PDT
by
Ron in Acreage
(Democrat or Communist? Is there a difference?)
To: halieus
To: halieus
Looks like someone at AP has a soft spot for sex offenders. No mention of the perp's victims. It looks like he wasn't beyond feeling shame.
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:23:15 AM PDT
by
TheDon
(Euthanasia is an atrocity.)
To: halieus
Are you kidding me?? So he had just got out of the hospital. He killed himself before he could commit again. I say thanks for sparing us court costs and unrealistic, "biased" media coverage. (Oh and I am sorry for his familys loss)
To: cjshapi
Maybe his fellow preverts will follow his example.
10
posted on
04/22/2005 11:23:23 AM PDT
by
mgc1122
To: halieus
Why the hell was he out of prison?
To: halieus
He won't commit another crime.
To: halieus
Interesting the method of death was not mentioned.
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:24:05 AM PDT
by
TheDon
(Euthanasia is an atrocity.)
To: halieus
Of all violent crimes, the recidivism rate for child molesters is the highest. I am sorry that this person took his life, but protecting the children in the community is more important than his privacy.
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:24:23 AM PDT
by
Jersey Republican Biker Chick
(People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
To: halieus
That's unfortunate.
It really is.
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:24:25 AM PDT
by
freedomson
(Tagline comment removed by moderator)
To: halieus
Commissioner Randy Harris...proposed putting up flyers in the neighborhoods of sex offenders to alert neighbors. He did the right thing.
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:24:27 AM PDT
by
zlala
(I used to have a handle on life but it broke.)
To: halieus
Sex offenders can't be fixed. Good riddance.
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:24:35 AM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(You must respect my a-tor-it-tah!)
To: halieus
She should be blaming 1) her son, and 2) whoever allowed him to be released from the psych hospital. There's far to much evidence that these people NEVER get well, to be letting them out into society again.
To: halieus
Maybe he killed himself because he couldn't live with what he had done. But of course we have to find someone else to blame.
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:25:16 AM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: halieus
To bad it didn't happen before he committed his first offense.
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:25:19 AM PDT
by
Graycliff
("Life is just one darn thing after another; LOVE is just two darn things after each other.")
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