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What say we pull this thread out of the DU archives (Original Post)
KansDem
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KamaAina
(78,249 posts)1. But, but, but Barney Frank!
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. Good one! Too short
Octafish
(55,745 posts)3. Assistant US Attorney John David Roy Atchison of the Northern District of Florida, deceased.
Roy Atchison: On the Paper Trail of a Paedophile
Posted on September 9, 2010 by Margie Burns
This blog entry is the first of a series of articles on John David Roy Atchison. Atchison, anAssistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Florida, Pensacola office, was arrested in September 2007 on charges relating to pedophilia. He committed suicide in federal prison in October 2007. Arrest and suicide were not foregrounded by the Department of Justice in the Bush administration. The first articles, based largely on FBI material obtained under FOIA, will focus on the criminal acts and their context in 2007 in the Pensacola office.
This is not the story of a man who engaged in pedophilia for years or decades before being caught. It is the story of a man whipsawed by the strain of living up to a high-achieving family rooted in Birmingham, Ala., whose high-functioning connections assisted him for years in developing a career for which he turned out not to be suited. On Sept. 16, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney John David Roy Atchison, serving as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Florida, was arrested on credible charges of basically pedophilia. Atchison committed suicide in federal prison Oct. 5.
A dead pedophile might not sound like a tragedy. But Atchison was thought to be participating in a pedophile ring, and his death removed a useful informant from law enforcement resources. The question of how he was enabled to kill himself rather than being preserved for justice is one of the loose ends left hanging in his case. This article series will look at the case itself, at how Atchison attained his federal career, and at the easy prison suicide in 2007.
The legal case begins in August 2007, when an officer identified only as part of the Detroit Deputized Cyber Task Force, posing online as a divorced mother of two small children, was Instant Messengered by Yahoo! Member fldaddy04. As the Federal Bureau of Investigation notes, when the TFO added the user to her buddy list, the name John Davidson replaced fldaddy04. By Sept. 12, the FBI had determined that Davidson was actually Atchison, married since 1983, who lived with his wife, a high school teacher and cheerleading coach, in Gulf Breeze, Florida, and was president of the Gulf Breeze Sports Association as well as an Assistant U.S. Attorney.
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http://www.margieburns.com/2010/09/roy-atchison-on-the-paper-trail-of-a-pedophile-part-1/
A conservative who rose through the GOP ranks of Karl Rove's Alabama, Atchison"suicided" on his second try in that Michigan jail. Never did get to hear who his friends and contacts were in his sick world.
Posted on September 9, 2010 by Margie Burns
This blog entry is the first of a series of articles on John David Roy Atchison. Atchison, anAssistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Florida, Pensacola office, was arrested in September 2007 on charges relating to pedophilia. He committed suicide in federal prison in October 2007. Arrest and suicide were not foregrounded by the Department of Justice in the Bush administration. The first articles, based largely on FBI material obtained under FOIA, will focus on the criminal acts and their context in 2007 in the Pensacola office.
This is not the story of a man who engaged in pedophilia for years or decades before being caught. It is the story of a man whipsawed by the strain of living up to a high-achieving family rooted in Birmingham, Ala., whose high-functioning connections assisted him for years in developing a career for which he turned out not to be suited. On Sept. 16, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney John David Roy Atchison, serving as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Florida, was arrested on credible charges of basically pedophilia. Atchison committed suicide in federal prison Oct. 5.
A dead pedophile might not sound like a tragedy. But Atchison was thought to be participating in a pedophile ring, and his death removed a useful informant from law enforcement resources. The question of how he was enabled to kill himself rather than being preserved for justice is one of the loose ends left hanging in his case. This article series will look at the case itself, at how Atchison attained his federal career, and at the easy prison suicide in 2007.
The legal case begins in August 2007, when an officer identified only as part of the Detroit Deputized Cyber Task Force, posing online as a divorced mother of two small children, was Instant Messengered by Yahoo! Member fldaddy04. As the Federal Bureau of Investigation notes, when the TFO added the user to her buddy list, the name John Davidson replaced fldaddy04. By Sept. 12, the FBI had determined that Davidson was actually Atchison, married since 1983, who lived with his wife, a high school teacher and cheerleading coach, in Gulf Breeze, Florida, and was president of the Gulf Breeze Sports Association as well as an Assistant U.S. Attorney.
CONTINUED...
http://www.margieburns.com/2010/09/roy-atchison-on-the-paper-trail-of-a-pedophile-part-1/
A conservative who rose through the GOP ranks of Karl Rove's Alabama, Atchison"suicided" on his second try in that Michigan jail. Never did get to hear who his friends and contacts were in his sick world.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)8. Good info, Octa.
Karl rove's Ala. is unfortunately correct.
Cirque du So-What
(25,914 posts)4. Even then
the list was outdated. I wish I had the time to devote toward maintaining a current like list of repug creeps like that.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)5. Darnie
I was hoping it would be "Don't tutch the butt".
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)7. here
Octafish
(55,745 posts)6. Rush Limbaugh took a bottle of Viagra to the Dominican Republic
The nation is popular spot for "sex tourism." The vulgar pigboy went there with a couple of "24" producers. There were allegations involving sex with minors. Flush doesn't talk abouit it much.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rush-limbaughs-dominican-stag-party