Posted on 09/18/2007 11:17:30 AM PDT by SubGeniusX
Feds: Prosecutor Sought Sex With Girl, 5
By DAVID N. GOODMAN
An assistant U.S. attorney from Florida was arrested in an Internet sting operation after flying to Michigan to have sex with a 5-year-old girl, authorities said Monday.
John D.R. Atchison, 53, was arrested Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after several weeks of Internet conversations between the prosecutor and a detective posing as the mother of a 5-year-old girl, authorities say.
"There wasn't much reaction from him at all," Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said. Atchison was cooperative with authorities, he said.
He was charged with using interstate communication to entice a minor to have sexual contact and traveling across state lines with the intent of engaging in illicit sexual contact. If convicted of both charges, he faces up to 40 years in prison.
According to court records, Atchison initiated an online chat Aug. 29 with an undercover officer posing as a mother interested in letting men have sex with her daughter.
At one point, Atchison said: "I'm always gentle and loving; not to worry; no damage ever; no rough stuff ever ever," according to an affidavit filed in court.
Atchison, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., is a prosecutor for the U.S. attorney's office for northern Florida, based in Tallahassee. He requested a court-appointed lawyer at his hearing Monday.
It's evil.
Not this slimeball’s first rodeo, it seems?
Time to chop that thing off.
If Bush or the new attorney general fire the guy, the libs will start a round of hearings.
This is one sad sick depraved bastard. Any decent society would burn him att he stake...
STATEMENT OF UNITED STATES ATTORNEY: ARREST OF ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY J.D. ROY ATCHISON
Pensacola, Florida - Gregory R. Miller, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, makes the following statement in response to the arrest of Assistant United States Attorney J.D. Roy Atchison in Detroit on Sunday, September 16:
“The employees of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida are deeply saddened by the arrest of federal civil attorney J.D. Roy Atchison. Investigations and prosecutions of this nature are both sensitive and difficult. Our office is fully cooperating with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan (Detroit), the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Macomb County (Michigan) as they continue their work on this case. We have confidence in the integrity of the work these law enforcers and prosecutors are doing, and believe that in the end, justice will be served. We are, of course, concerned about the welfare of Mr. Atchison’s family. Our thoughts and prayers go out to them. The men and women of the United States Attorney’s Office are true professionals – in every sense of the word. The public can be assured they are doing the work of the nation’s law firm with excellence, dedicated to ably serving the people of this District.”
Interesting that none of the stories mentions his political affiliation. Anyone know?
Too bad he’s not female. Then he could be Hillary’s AG.
How do you know he is a Dem?
Who appointed him? What party?
Phil Hendrie talked about this last night. He wished to
refer to the man as “It” not “he”.
He must be pretty small in more ways than one.
Sounds like he’s been at this awhile. A few trips to Thailand perhaps???
I wondered if he were a Democrat, since his party affiliation was not mentioned.
It’s just expected that dems are perverts.
So any existing “sexual orientation” laws there in Florida that might protect him?
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