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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: Netizen
Me too. All one can do when we hear of this case, and other like it, is cry. Those poor babies were defenseless. And How the parents are able to go on is beyond me! I would be incoherent with rage and upset.
281 posted on 04/22/2005 3:27:27 PM PDT by gidget7 (Get GLSEN out of our schools!!!!!!)
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To: halieus

WOOO HOOOO! Maybe the rest will become copycaters!


282 posted on 04/22/2005 3:27:53 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (A kid in the front seat causes accidents, an accident in the rear seat causes kids!)
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To: Teacher317

"A better hypo: you live in a town where 88% of the residents are molesters. Your town is walled off permanently because of the danger to neighboring towns. You appeal to the courts to let you escape, but you are not allowed to. You have been grouped with "THEM", permanently and irreversibly, without any regard for your own situation. Nice, isn't it?"

I am sure each of the residents would like to get out. In the first place, they earned their way into thiscommunity by molesting children, don't forget.

According to statistics you provide, 88% will molest other peoples' children when out.

But I am so glad you have the rights of the 12% that won't reoffend, in front of those of the children, that will be molested.

By the way, we have trouble telling WHICH 12% until they offend.

So considering the overall effect of my position, I am quite happy to hold the child molester for life. One strike and you are out.

It is that simple. Pedophilia equals a life sentence.

Sorry if this offends your sensitivities, for child molesters, and perhaps for all types of criminals.

How many armed robberies, until you lock somebody up for life?

How many 2nd degree murders?

How many assaults?

How many rapes?

I would like your answers. Tell me how many, for each.

All it boils down to is I have a lower tolerance for "wishful thinking" than you have.

Do the crime, spend the time.


283 posted on 04/22/2005 3:28:07 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: LeGrande

No one is talking about a death sentence for teens having sex. Grown men and innocent children is what we are talking about! Or a man who rapes a girl/women of any age, second offense, life in prison.


284 posted on 04/22/2005 3:29:23 PM PDT by gidget7 (Get GLSEN out of our schools!!!!!!)
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To: utahagen

Damn, that is a great point and I had never thought of it like that, but you hit the nail on the head.

Even if you do take the offender's perspective, there is utterly no sense in this. You let the guy roam free and do battle with the demons which defeated him before. And then you expose them to the public, yes, indeed for the benefit of the public, but at tremendous disservice to the offender. I agree with you - the crim justice system isn't there to serve the offenders, but the libs think that it is....so they should also oppose releasing these sickos. Leave them in where they can live what will be the best shot at a normal life - one of constant supervision and made work. Then of course you rightly bring up the interest of the public..."hey...guess what? there is a sex offender in your neighborhood? brought to you as a psa...your tax dollars at work!" what an ingenius system....

Lock em up. Never let em out. Everyone wins.


285 posted on 04/22/2005 3:34:20 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: halieus

I guess those signs are working!


286 posted on 04/22/2005 3:36:15 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand?)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Castration works to fix them, but the ACLU won't let the courts order such a punishment.

No it does not.

All convicted sex offenders that are out on the streets should have their faces and hands tatooed a bright red color if they want to stay on the street. At least people could see them coming.

287 posted on 04/22/2005 3:37:34 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (You must respect my a-tor-it-tah!)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
I really want to meet someone face to face who truly supports the idea of letting convicted child rapists back out into society.

I'd like to meet such a person as well, but I have been too busy to find out when the local chapter of the ACL freaking U has its next meeting. I'm betting there I would strike gold.

288 posted on 04/22/2005 3:38:30 PM PDT by grellis ("Unless, God forbid, there are two Placentas walking around"--FR demkicker)
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To: republicofdavis

Well put


289 posted on 04/22/2005 3:41:27 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: halieus
Oh, well.
290 posted on 04/22/2005 3:41:50 PM PDT by P-Chan Penny (Watch out or I will send out my attack Chihuahua, Miaka!)
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To: BibChr
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?

But we can't because the system is just too corrupt at this time. All the children alive now are living only because someone had the grace to let them live until they were born. We have become a nation of whores and murderers.

291 posted on 04/22/2005 3:42:26 PM PDT by Concentrate
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To: truth_seeker
It is that simple. Pedophilia equals a life sentence. Sorry if this offends your sensitivities, for child molesters, and perhaps for all types of criminals.

Doesn't offend me at all. IF that were the law, then I'd support it's (just and equal) application.

The problem is that so many otherwise intelligent people support that punishment when it is NOT what is judicially-awarded or legislatively-imposed, and yet they want it done anyway. THAT is where the problems begin, and where the guarantees of the Constitution are put at risk... and protecting those guarantees is what I am adamant about, despite all attempts to paint me otherwise.

292 posted on 04/22/2005 3:46:07 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: LeGrande

There have been teens that have killed little babies, and yes they should be given the death penalty. Being a minor is no excuse to be allowed to rape and murder in cold blood.


293 posted on 04/22/2005 3:47:06 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: BibChr
I understand what you're saying and I, for one, am not gleeful in the least about anyone committing suicide. However:

...our society, and our legal system, says "You did A, so you owe B." Then it exacts B, which the person pays.

This is where I have a problem, a definite problem. "B", with regard to pedophiles, is not enough. The rate of recidivism in pedophiles boggles the mind. It is a cancer with the slimmest chance of a cure. It is also a cancer which spreads. A person is far more likely to become a molester if they themselves were victimized. The surest way to stop the spread of the disease: quarantine of infected individual until the end of their days.

I feel pity for the victim here, but I also feel pity for the accused. Society did him a disservice by letting him out.

Flame on, folks.

294 posted on 04/22/2005 3:48:10 PM PDT by grellis ("Unless, God forbid, there are two Placentas walking around"--FR demkicker)
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To: BibChr

No one made this person commit suicide except himself.


295 posted on 04/22/2005 3:52:20 PM PDT by k2blader (Immorality bites.)
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To: halieus

opps, that is really to bad. /s


296 posted on 04/22/2005 3:52:58 PM PDT by SeeRushToldU_So (Flashback.)
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To: cyborg
How do you know his death isn't God's will?

Dan has probably already answered this, but it seems to me that suicide could never be God's will. Suicide is the ultimate act of hopelessness, the complete and total shutting out of the Spirit. Think about it: Why did He put His only son up there on that cross? Not for some of the sins of a few chosen. For all the sins of all of us.

297 posted on 04/22/2005 3:53:06 PM PDT by grellis ("Unless, God forbid, there are two Placentas walking around"--FR demkicker)
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To: grellis

That does not excuse his crime even if he is a changed person. Actions have consequences. If he couldn't handle reading posters warning parents of young children about him then he ought not to have done the deed in the first place.


298 posted on 04/22/2005 3:55:56 PM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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To: grellis
suicide could never be God's will

Agreed.

Suicide is the coward's way out. Tragically, most people who commit suicide probably do so because they think then "it'll just be over" and they won't exist so nothing will matter. But for them, it's barely just begun.

299 posted on 04/22/2005 3:57:38 PM PDT by k2blader (Immorality bites.)
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To: k2blader

You don't think Judas' suicide was God's will?


300 posted on 04/22/2005 4:06:32 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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