Right out of a movie, isnt it!
Seriously, if anyone here deigns to read the intrepid investigative reporter Wayne Madsen (a guy who is totally likeable and believable in person), there is plenty of this stuff around in Republican circles. It may be the only meaningful moral difference between Republicans and Democrats.
BobW
--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> This is better than the O.J. in Vegas story. This
> guy tried to hang
> himself this morning:
>
>
> Federal prosecutor from Florida caught in child sex
> sting
>
> Paul Egan / The Detroit News
>
> A federal prosecutor from Florida was ordered held
> in custody Monday
> after he appeared in U.S. District Court in Detroit
> on a charge that
> he flew to Detroit intending to have sex with a
> 5-year-old girl.
>
> John David R. Atchison, 53, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., an
> assistant U.S.
> Attorney in Florida's northern district, is expected
> to appear again
> in court for a detention hearing on Tuesday.
>
> He was caught in an Internet child sex sting run by
> the Macomb County
> Sheriff's Department and the FBI and arrested Sunday
> when he flew
> into Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Pensacola,
> Fla., according to
> a criminal complaint filed in federal court in
> Detroit.
>
> A sheriff's deputy posed as a mother who was
> interested in finding
> someone to have sex with her children, in a sting
> that has already
> netted a California paramedic and numerous other
> alleged pedophiles
> from around the country.
>
> According to the complaint, Atchison reassured the
> sheriff's deputy
> who was posing as the child's mother that he would
> not hurt the
> 5-year-old because he goes "slow and easy," and
> "I've done it plenty."
>
> Atchison is charged with using interstate
> communication to entice a
> minor to have sexual contact, a federal charge that
> carries a 10-year
> minimum prison sentence upon conviction. He is also
> charged with
> traveling across state lines with the intent of
> engaging in illicit
> sexual contact, an offense that carries a maximum
> sentence of 30 years.
>
> News of Atchison's arrest is "a shellshock" in Gulf
> Breeze, where
> Atchison was the president of a local youth
> recreation board and had
> been involved in coaching soccer, baseball and other
> sports, said Lt.
> Rich Hawthorne of the Gulf Breeze police.
>
> "It's an extreme surprise," because Atchison, who is
> married with
> children and has lived in the community about 20
> years, was seen as
> an "outstanding member of the community," Hawthorne
> said.
>
> In Macomb County, where the Internet sting
> originated, "nothing
> surprises me anymore," said Sheriff Mark Hackel.
>
> "I want people to get the understanding here in
> Macomb County we
> don't want people to prey on kids from this area or
> coming into this
> area," Hackel said.
>
> "We have seen all walks of life that have attempted
> to prey on our children."
>
> A slight man with circle baldness and a Vandyke
> beard, Atchison
> appeared in court wearing glasses, blue jeans and a
> white sweat shirt.
>
> Officials at the U.S. Attorney's Office in
> Tallahassee, where the
> northern district of Florida is headquartered, and
> in Pensacola,
> where Atchison works, could not immediately be
> reached for comment.
>
>
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070917/UPDATE/709170422/1003
>
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