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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: halieus

AND,... we're supposed to feel bad for this P.O.S.!! Oh I forgot, he should have a chance to rehab.

Question: If a Homosexual can't choose, not to be a homosexual, why do liberals believe that a pedophile can change? are'nt they both just sexual orientations?

Put all pedophiles away for life, in the general population of the prisons.


21 posted on 04/22/2005 11:25:35 AM PDT by marine86297 (I'll never forgive Clinton for Somalia, my blood is on his hands)
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To: halieus

Ah well.......


22 posted on 04/22/2005 11:25:58 AM PDT by roaddog727 (The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
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To: halieus
A convicted sex offender apparently committed suicide in despair over signs posted in his neighborhood calling him a child rapist.

Sounds like we should be doing that a lot more often. Christ and God can be merciful to these scumbags. I just think we should execute child rapists.

23 posted on 04/22/2005 11:26:03 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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To: halieus

Who knew these warnings worked that well?

Cheaper than bullets - and less needless paper-work!


24 posted on 04/22/2005 11:26:15 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: zlala
He did the right thing.


So did the deceased.
25 posted on 04/22/2005 11:26:35 AM PDT by kx9088
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To: halieus
Well.... Boo Hoo, Ok that's over with,
what's on tv tonight?
26 posted on 04/22/2005 11:26:59 AM PDT by GrandEagle
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To: halieus
It was less than a day after his release from a psychiatric hospital.
(What took him so long...)
27 posted on 04/22/2005 11:27:14 AM PDT by evets (God bless President Bush and VP Cheney)
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To: halieus

The sheriff doesn't want to see hysteria? How about the hysteria of the families of dead children?


28 posted on 04/22/2005 11:27:22 AM PDT by mlc9852
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To: cjshapi

Feel bad!?

Heck, I think a great tactic has been hit upon here. Hound them right into hell where they belong!


29 posted on 04/22/2005 11:27:33 AM PDT by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over a year now)
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To: halieus
His mother blames Marion County Commissioner Randy Harris for her son's death.

Of course she is.

After all, it was Randy harris who forced her to be a horrible mother who raised a disgusting monster, wasn't it?

All in all, it's ridiculous that child molesters should be forced to for themselves what the justice system should have done for them long agao.

30 posted on 04/22/2005 11:27:51 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: isthisnickcool
"Sex offenders can't be fixed."

Castration works to fix them, but the ACLU won't let the courts order such a punishment. There was a criminal recently who was going to be released and knew he could not control himself. He asked to be voluntarily castrated. The ACLU fought to stop him from voluntarily having the procedure.

31 posted on 04/22/2005 11:27:51 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: halieus
.... After seeing the signs, Claxton, 38, told the sheriff's office that he felt "extremely scared and feels that people in the neighborhood are now out to possibly hurt him."

When he threatened suicide, he was involuntarily committed to the mental health hospital Tuesday and released the next day. Claxton was convicted in Washington state in 1991 of molesting a 9-year-old girl. He was 20 at the time, but his mother said he was developmentally much younger due to a brain injury.

Jane Claxton blames County Commissioner Randy Harris, who proposed the flyers, for her son's death. "Just don't get on the bandwagon," she said. "There's going to be other (deaths) if Randy Harris has his way."

She said her son required constant care and recently relied on leg braces and a wheelchair. "He hasn't been in trouble for 18 years, and he's branded for life," she said. ... source

32 posted on 04/22/2005 11:28:13 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: halieus
You know, I have a really hard time feeling sorry for this guy or his parents.

If someone like this had shown up in our neighborhood in Texas when I was growing up, he wouldn't have been around for long and the dads in the community would have seen to it

33 posted on 04/22/2005 11:28:56 AM PDT by texgal (end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
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To: halieus

So the flyer campaign worked.


34 posted on 04/22/2005 11:29:33 AM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: halieus

Wow, who would have thought it would be that easy to get rid of these sick bas*****.


35 posted on 04/22/2005 11:29:36 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (The auto-focus on my photographic memory is broken.)
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To: halieus
A convicted sex offender apparently committed suicide

I'm sorry, but, BETTER HE KILL HIMSELF THEN A CHILD!

36 posted on 04/22/2005 11:29:39 AM PDT by SweetCaroline (Politicans and Diapers need changing often and for the same reason!)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Castration doesn't even work.

castrated offenders have reoffended using instruments to compensate for their impotence.

As long as their mind is evil, what you do to their body has no truly reliable effect. Unless, of course, you kill them like you're supposed to.

37 posted on 04/22/2005 11:29:43 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: halieus

Looks like all the attention was crimping his lifestyle and he couldn't deal with it.


38 posted on 04/22/2005 11:29:43 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: halieus
This is a travesty! Do you guys realize that Mr. Claxton's pedophilia being pointed out hurt his feelings? His feelings are far more important than the safety of children. /sarc
39 posted on 04/22/2005 11:30:03 AM PDT by KJC1
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To: halieus

Who knew these warnings worked that well?

Cheaper than bullets - and less needless paper-work!


40 posted on 04/22/2005 11:30:12 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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