Posted on 10/05/2007 1:08:55 PM PDT by diverteach
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that federal prosecutor J.D. Roy Atchison of Gulf Breeze, who was charged last month after allegedly flying to Detroit to have sex with a 5-year-old child, committed suicide today.
The newspaper cited authorities who said Atchison hanged himself this morning at the federal prison in Milan, Mich., where he was taken after previously trying to commit suicide at Sanilac County Jail.
They said the 53-year-old Atchison, who worked in the U.S. attorney’s office in Pensacola, had been housed in solitary confinement and was under close supervision, the newspaper reported.
Lawyer James Thomas of Detroit said he planned to ask a federal judge to dismiss the charges against Atchison, the Free Press reported.
Greg Miller, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Florida, issued the following statement in response to Atchison's suicide: "Our thoughts and prayers are with Roy’s family and friends. We hope that with the passage of time, they can find some measure of healing."
And the second...
What a sick man. He got caught up in the devils web...
Yes, I can have drugs planted on me, or in my home, I can be accused of rape by a deranged woman, and I can be framed in any number of ways. But there is no way in hell I'm ever going to have any kind of sexual conversation with ANYONE under the age of eighteen. Since my kids are all past that age, there's no need to even have a "birds and bees" talk anymore.
Getting on an airplane to fly to a distant city after having negotiations to have sex with a five-year old (even if nonexistant) is more than enough to convict the SOB in my eyes.
Further, I'm sorry he was able to do this. I'd have loved to have read the news that he died in prison at the hands of his fellow inmates while begging for his miserable life!
Take that, pervert defender!
Would the judge have gone easy on him? I hope not, but in too many cases demented judges have given less than a slap on the wrist to repeat child rapists.
In this morning's paper was a short reference ex-cop Randolph Drew Smith of Newport News, VA getting off with a suspended sentence for molesting boys. No jail time for Smith.
Eh, I won’t miss this damned pervert.
“Had to be a Clintoon appointee. Seems to be their MO”
Here’s some information on him.
http://www.nndb.com/people/114/000162625/
If true about his reason for getting on the plane I agree. Can you prove that is why he was on the plane? Do you personally have any evidence not spoon fed to you by what quite possible could be another Earl or Nifong? Or maybe it just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside to believe that you are better than another person? A person that like you should have been afforded the same opportunity to have all the evidence presented to a jury in a fair trial? Perhaps you are saddened because Dan Rather got caught in his attempt to frame President Bush and you are glad that Achison didn't have the resources to defend himself that Bush has?
Further, I'm sorry he was able to do this. I'd have loved to have read the news that he died in prison at the hands of his fellow inmates while begging for his miserable life!
Again... You have convicted this person without a fair trial. What's wrong with you? Maybe you should move to China or Cuba where kangaroo courts are the norm eh?
Here... I have an idea. Vote for Hillary. She'll give you the type of totalitarian Oligarchy you so pray for. Then all those evil people that don't look just right to you or that look at you just the wrong way can be hung, shot or in some other way removed from breathing the same air your highness does. Me... Well I'd rather wait to exterminate them until AFTER they have had their day in court.
Take that, pervert defender!
Obviously you are not a mental giant are you? I'm sure you are proud of being the first person in your family to graduate the 3rd grade.
Ad Hominem attacks are usually one of the first signs of an intellectually challenged simpleton so forgive me if my assumption is incorrect k? Thanks.
I know scripture and know what you THINK you mean. The incident with Joseph and Potiphar's wife was a he-said she-said situation; he was a slave, she was the wife of a wealthy, high-ranking aide to the Pharaoh. Who's going to be believed? If Joseph didn't run from the scene of the alleged rape, what would have changed? There were no witnesses. Your hypothesis is absolutely ridiculous.
Anyway, in the end, God made sure everything turned out well with Joseph. And I think perhaps he did in this situation as well.
You radical witch hunters need to be stopped. I hope they string Nifong up just to teach you knee-jerk judges a lesson.
Take a breath and wipe the spittle from your monitor.
In his trial for contempt of court, Nifong was disbarred and got a single night in jail, which is a miscarriage of justice. He's not going to be strung up. Sorry to disappoint you. And by the way, this was not a "witch hunt," it was a hunt for pedophiles. And one was caught.
That's a good thing.
I am saddened that this soul has been destroyed without so much as a trial.
Meanwhile, the destroyed souls of Atchison's admitted victims drag on. Forgot about them, didn't you? Think he said he had "done it plenty" to the decoy mother/pimp just so he could fly from Florida to Michigan and say "April Fool!"?
Shame on you all.
Shame on you for being so gullible.
America is now infected with a bunch of unqualified, unelected, uneducated, judge, jury and executioners and NO WHERE is that more apparent than right here in this thread. Lord have mercy on your souls.
...You done?
Fortunately, America also now has the means to trap criminals in their own devices, so that people who travel half the country to rape toddlers can be put in a situation where they might either be convicted and put away for life (although they sometimes are coddled by activist judges) or save the authorities time and money by ridding the world of themselves.
Cry all you want for the loss of another scumbag. I'll save my tears for people who are worthy of them.
That's true, but my comment was mainly made as an ironic comment - you don't want to get into the habit of believing that Republicans are a bunch of unappreciated saints.
People become politicians for a variety of reasons, and many simply join the winning party because they think they can win that way. They have no ideology - they just want the money, or the access, or the power, whatever.
there is a true war hero and fighter ace, a pub, in jail for taking bribes while the Clintons are still scott-free
I know all about Randy Cunningham...it's a damn shame. He did things willfully as an adult. But I agree that when a Republican does things like this they get held to a higher standard, and they usually end up in jail, while a Dim runs for President as a "victim".
There is most certainly a double standard in both the press and courts, and it overamplifies the Republicans while drastically downplaying the Despicables.
Nice try tinkerbell. I don't cry for scumbags that have been proven to be scumbags. What I do cry for are the days when the simple language, "Innocent until PROVEN GUILTY in court of law" existed. It is people of your stripe that has dumped due process and given the radical liberal judges all the ammo they need to throw real criminals back out onto the street. It is people of your stripe that gave Dan Rather all the nudging he needed to forge documents in an attempt to slander and destroy George W. Bush.
But you know what really gets me? Your ilk is so blinded by your own lust to jump to conclusions that you fail to see what our basic freedoms are.
You'd better hope no one gets it out for you.
Do we know for sure he really killed himself?
I know someone who lost a daughter in a terrible way to a real scum bag. That scum bag ended up committing suicide in a way that was quite unlikely. (He probably was killed by a fellow prisoner.)
Remember all those folks from the Clinton era, they supposedly committed suicide too.
That's weak...but typical.
I don't cry for scumbags that have been proven to be scumbags. What I do cry for are the days when the simple language, "Innocent until PROVEN GUILTY in court of law" existed.
Anyone with active synapses realizes that if they commit suicide in a jail cell, it will be presumed it was because they couldn't face justice. Think a freakin' Federal prosecutor wouldn't know a little something about that?
It is people of your stripe that has dumped due process and given the radical liberal judges all the ammo they need to throw real criminals back out onto the street. It is people of your stripe that gave Dan Rather all the nudging he needed to forge documents in an attempt to slander and destroy George W. Bush.
Excuse me?
Dan Rather says he was just an innocent talking head news-reading drone who had that story plunked in front of him. And he insists that nobody has proved the memo was fake. And he knows that the story was true even if the documents are fake!
Dan Rather has not been accused of forging any documents, and he has not been accused of slander. How dare you convict him in your own mind without a trial. Why is Atchison "Innocent until PROVEN GUILTY in a court of law" and Dan Rather not, you hypocrite?!
Doctor, heal thyself!
Now he has to face the heavenly judge.
He knew what a repulsive creature he was.
“Apparently not that close.”
Close enough, I would say.
Defending a child @#$%er?
You have that “itch” that inkling...that “oh doing a 5 year old is hot”?
Cuz if not, I frankly can’t see any other reason why you’d defend this human garbage. The guy wanted to @#$% a 5 year old.
Did you miss that? lemme repeat it. The GUY INTENDED TO PUT HIS @#$% IN A 5 YEAR OLD. A 5 year old!!! Do you know any 5 Year olds? I do. Are they “hot” in any fashion?
Aaaah yes... Another mental midget. Learn to read dips***.
I’m not the mental deficient defending a child @#$%er.
Save your outrage .
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