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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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To: ko_kyi
Everything from the worst you can think of to getting caught taking a leak on a tree where someone can see you.

That's a problem with the listings and the label "sex offender." There's a huge disparity in their offenses and their danger to the community, but all get the same level of label.

This guy didn't seem to be a danger (based on the details posted on this thread, however he gets the same label and treatment as a serial rapist killer.

221 posted on 04/22/2005 1:51:15 PM PDT by D-fendr
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To: cyborg

I double-dog disagree.


222 posted on 04/22/2005 1:51:33 PM PDT by Skooz (Jesus Christ Set Me Free of Drug Addiction in 1985. Thank You, Lord.)
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To: republicofdavis
When any of that comes close to starting to happen, please let me know.

It may not be soon, but when was the last time our beloved bureaucrats failed to take an opportunity to expand their powers over us over the long term? Why expose your grandchildren to that particular danger, especially if you are so adamant about saving your children from the aforementioned danger?

223 posted on 04/22/2005 1:51:36 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: mlc9852

SInce I asked first, can I ask for an answer first? Do you see that that isn't my point, or my question? My question is: the penalty society exacted is X, the perp pays X -- is it your place, my place, to demand more of him, or to hold his bill unpaid and hound him for it, absent further crimes? If here, then in how many places? And what is the difference between that and vigilantism, mob rule, or anarchy?

If we don't like the penalty, we can change laws and judges. Should we persecute those who paid what they were told to pay?

Dan


224 posted on 04/22/2005 1:52:11 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: All

One less predator preying on our children. Goodbye and good riddance.

(waiting for some bleeding heart to denigrate me for my cold-heartedness)


225 posted on 04/22/2005 1:52:32 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: republicofdavis

My apologies, that was truth_seeker.


226 posted on 04/22/2005 1:52:36 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: cyborg

Your response disappoints me. I thought we knew each other a bit better.

Dan


227 posted on 04/22/2005 1:53:15 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: BibChr

You are right - we need to change the laws as some states are now doing. Keep child molesters in prison for life.


228 posted on 04/22/2005 1:53:32 PM PDT by mlc9852
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To: Skooz

I'm with you, there.


229 posted on 04/22/2005 1:53:37 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com

"Castration does not work."

Yup.

"They only use foreign objects instead."

Yup.

"The only answer is to kill them."

Yup.


230 posted on 04/22/2005 1:54:03 PM PDT by MonaMars
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To: Teacher317

"By the way, I think that recidivism rate is about 88%."

Insofar as we KNOW 8.8 out of ten will re-offend, how do YOU propose dealing with them?

It is not reassuring to learn that YOU know 8.8 out of ten will reoffend, yet you seem sympathetic towards the 100% class, more so than the victims and our decent society.

I have small to no sympathy for the 12% you seem inclined to stand up for.

As to youir criticism of medical science, I see no factual support. I first heard the near zero rehab statistic from a doctor, who I would otherwise consider a do-gooder type.

It therefore impressed me, since I would have thought she would want me to believe they could be rehabilitated.

Her medical treatment for them, is lockdown. Lifelong.


231 posted on 04/22/2005 1:54:18 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: gidget7

I don't disagree.


232 posted on 04/22/2005 1:54:25 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: BibChr

Not sure what you mean, but there's beliefs and then there's reality especially when it comes to one's own children. You think that putting up posters to warn people about a convicted sex offender is somehow vigilante justice. I think it's GOOD. He killed himself. Other people didn't kill him and all his coddling, weak minded mommy could do is blame other people wanting to protect their kids.


233 posted on 04/22/2005 1:57:58 PM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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To: BibChr
Should we persecute those who paid what they were told to pay?

Part of the payment is to be branded forever. This is not like speeding, or refusing to pay bills, the minor crimes that you cited earlier.

Since you seem to like biblical stuff, did your God let Cain know that he and his kind were to have a mark put on them after Cain killed Abel? Why can't our society emulate something God is supposed to have done in the name of justice?

234 posted on 04/22/2005 1:58:47 PM PDT by hunter112 (Total victory at home and in the Middle East!)
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To: Skooz
How often must one pay for one crime?

Look at it from the other side. How many of our innocent children must we lose to the same sex offender because he cannot be rehabilitated?

235 posted on 04/22/2005 1:59:12 PM PDT by Netizen (USA - Land of the free, home of the brave, where the handicapped are legally starved and dehydrated!)
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To: 2Jedismom

Ditto.


236 posted on 04/22/2005 1:59:14 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (The Democrat party-a home ,bitter sweet home, for UN-Americans.)
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To: 2Jedismom

"I keep thinking about this girl I met once, she was thirteen, probably 5'9" and her parents had her dressed up like a woman in her mid 20s. I swear, she looked older than me...and could put on a show. Had a guy in his 20s unwittingly had a relationship with her, he would have been branded for life as a "child molester"."

Statutory rapists don't get placed in mental hospitals after conviction, as this guy was. Compulsive sexual predators do. And nearly all registration programs only require neighborhood notification for offenders judged likely to reoffend. Statutory rapists are not in that category.


237 posted on 04/22/2005 1:59:19 PM PDT by MonaMars
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To: cyborg
Misguided help you are giving by defending a pervert's right to privacy.

Not to mock, but that sentence made me think of Yoda. =^)

Anyway, I'm not defending the deceased, I'm trying to educate a few emotional posters on basic Constitutional Law, and the importance of not mucking it up due to emotionalism and knee-jerk reactions. "Hard cases make bad law" is an ancient truth. Denying any possibility of release in all cases and publicly treating freed-persons differently are terrible precedents and they will almost inevitably lead to worse. The Founders knew this, and this logic was foundational to the Constituion itself (limited powers, equal protection, proportional punishments, etc, etc, etc). Never open the door for a bureaucrat to impose tighter restrictions so that he can gain political points with scared parents or voters. They always will, and they will never loosen them.

What about the victim's rights?

The victim does not have a right to see an offender put away for life in all cases and circumstances.

Or are you asserting the rights of the future unknown victim? In that case, the entire Constitution can be tossed, since every person is a potential future victim and offender.

238 posted on 04/22/2005 2:00:11 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: gidget7

We seemed to be so much more civilized when we were less tolerant.


239 posted on 04/22/2005 2:01:24 PM PDT by keats5
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To: Waterleak
Witches are evil.

They most certainly are!





240 posted on 04/22/2005 2:01:48 PM PDT by TChris (Just once, we need an elected official to stand up to a clearly incorrect ruling by a court. - Ann C)
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