Though, it's true that everyone always forgets that there is always a family involved that doesn't deserve the pain and suffering that go along with being mashed up in the (un)justice system, and especially don't deserve the loss of an uccused and untried parent.

Sad in too many ways to count.

If he did not kill himself, some other convict would have done it for him. He beat them to the punch.

I think it is very likely that as awful as all this is, they will be better off without him. Having a dead father to mourn is not nearly as bad as having a live father who is molesting you.

If only there was a nationally known treatment program for individuals so inclined as this prosecutor... for now I am okay with jail or self-prescribed death penalties.

And yes, it sucks for his family, but I think it suck a bit more for any one he abused...

Here's a guess as to how : if this guy's "done it plenty of times" comment had turned out to be indeed true, how anxious do you think the DoJ was about having this turn into a long-running, media-frenzied case? Anxious enough to allow for an "unfortunate" 15 minute bathroom break for whoever was watching him, perhaps?

And now we get these vomitous "good man" statements that they're already spouting.

Money says within a year one has to search long and hard to find evidence that the case ever existed in the first place. And that, my friends, is every bit as sick and twisted as anything this guy ever did.

Not so in this case.

I took many many psychology and law courses when I was in high school and college, and this one always came up. The feds are almost always online, but there are more chat rooms than cops, I think.

The REALLY fucked up thing is that I don't think the kids always get permanently removed from the home, even when their parents are caught soliciting them, because of our judiciary's right-wing love for not breaking up families, pretty much regardless of the situation. It becomes that Michael Vick thing of "Well, they didn't know better. They took our parenting class now, so they;re A-OK!"

And he wasn't one of the 93 celebrated (and politically appointed) US Attorneys ... just one of thousands of Asst. USA's (a career civil service job).

http://wizbangblue.com/2007/09/19/john-david-roy-atchisons-page-on-myspace.php

@6: I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the cops DID lean on him for information. Who knows what he told them, but he was certainly in custody for quite some time.

You're correct that Atchison's arrangement with the sting operative doesn't fit into the "Daddy's Girl" fetish outlined on Atchison's MySpace page. It appears that Atchison had a penchant for real children -- and perhaps turned to "Adult children" in role play situations as substitute or surrogate. In the case of his trip to Detroit, it's my opinion that he thought he was meeting up with a real child.

This may well have been his first attempt to connect with a real child, although he apparently bragged about his 'experience' with children in the online chats.

@19: I've yet to see any solid evidence that Atchison was a registered Republican -the 'seed' of that rumor being anecdotal evidence -- an anonymous blog commenter who says they've seen the voter registration records for Gulf Breeze, Florida that lists Atchison as a Republican. The same "report" also listed an incorrect age for Atchison -- off by two years - link. A birth year of 1950 would make Atchison 49 or 50 -- the arrest report lists his age as 53.

I checked that county to see if the I could obtain the voter registration records online, and could not -- so how this person was supposedly able to look it up hours after Atchison's arrest is a mystery - or a lie.

The fact that the birth year doesn't match certainly makes this 'proof' less than solid. However, Atchison was first hired as an Asst. US Attorney under the Reagan administration, and I think that fact supports but of course doesn't prove, the likelihood of Atchison being a Republican in the late 1980s.

The whole thing is sad more so when you consider that there's about a 99% chance that something similar happened to him when he was a child. The cycle just goes on. Sad. But I would want to question his parents and/or siblings to find out if he wasn't the only one in his family being abused as well.

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