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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Ah, the outpouring of Christian love on this thread is simply overwhelming.
I didn't realize he was an illegal. D*mn, like we are so pervert poor that we have to import them.
And if you and I can agree, why can't the rest of the country??? I really want to meet someone face to face who truly supports the idea of letting convicted child rapists back out into society. Somehow, this is the law of the land, and yet oddly I've never run into anyone -- in person, or in cyberspace -- who actually admits to agreeing with it.
I truly do feel sympathy for some of these people, whose horrible mental disorder is often the result of some kind of abuse they themselves suffered in childhood. But the fact that some of them are not really responsible for the fact that they are monsters, doesn't change the fact that they ARE monsters, and that children must be protected from them at all costs.
Everything from the worst you can think of to getting caught taking a leak on a tree where someone can see you.
It an outpouring of frustration, borne of love for the innocent children who keep being victimized by these incurable offenders.
I love a happy ending!!
"I didn't realize he was an illegal."
I think he was a U.S. citizen. My remark was a reference to him being a felon, an outlaw....having done illegal things....
A person who molests a 9 year old deserves what he gets
Better this sleazeball than a 9 year old neighborhood girl!
He molested a 9 year old
His victim was 9 years old.
Is there a point to the Sex Offender list, The ones who deserve it, don't deserve to live. I don't feel threatend by someone who when he was 18 had relations with a 16 yr old girlfreind.
Pedophiles have only a slight chance of rehabilitation. That is the medical opinion of medical science. Psychiatry.
Letting any of them out of confinement is a crime against the community.
Making the decent members of the community search databases, find where these people live, is rediculous.
Lock them away permanently. If they volunteer, execute them.
I'm absolutely for justice, law, and order. I'm also for mercy and redemption. I see them as distinct, but not mutually exclusive.
So my question is: our society, and our legal system, says "You did A, so you owe B." Then it exacts B, which the person pays.
But then all the little gods on this thread say, "Not enough."
So suppose someone commits a hellacious crime, is punished as society says he should be, genuinely repents, genuinely is a changed man -- what then? The little gods here pronounce that they aren't satisfied. So what standard obtains now? What is the order of our society? Vigilante justice? Or folks like these driving folks like this to utter despair?
I owe a story $47. I pay the store $47. Then I walk out the front door, and some little god says "$47 isn't nearly enough! You owe another $3854759098!"
Do I?
Or is that his problem?
Random thoughts... but not entirely. Things I wonder, but can't entirely answer.
story = store
Something tells me this bit of news is not going to keep me awake tonight, tossing and turning, asking myself over and over "what if"....
I wish the rest would follow his lead. Sure would make the world a better place.
Well, if the guy was 20 and was convicted of statutory rape for consensual sex with a 17-year-old, I think the treatment was way too harsh. I think "those details" could make a huge difference. We just don't know.
The fact that he took his own life over the incessant hounding leads me to think maybe he wasn't necessarily a monsterous baby-raper, as so many here are presuming him to have been. I'm not trying to minimize or excuse his crimes, what ever those were, in any way, but there's a wide range of possible illegal sexual activities that would land a guy in jail. Some are far worse than others. We just don't know.
I know what you mean. Back in the mid sixties, when the girls of all ages were wearing various versions of what was called the baby doll dress, there was a popular joke at the time that went like this: "But, your Honor, she looked like she was thirteen, she acted like she was thirteen-how was I to know she was thirteen?"
I don't know the whole story in this case and I may have overreacted. So many young people, both girls and boys are coming up missing lately and then being found dead and having been sexually molested, it is maddening.
"Is there a point to the Sex Offender list, The ones who deserve it, don't deserve to live."
Absolutely no argument. Jesus Himself said it was better a millstone be hung around their neck than they had ever been born.
Any government is bad government, to the degree it strays from -- or spurns -- the Ten Commandments.
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