Saturday, October 06, 2007

Fed. Prosecutor Jailed on Sex Charges Commits Suicide in jail.

From TalkLeft:

John David "Roy" Atchison, the Florida federal prosecutor arrested in Detroit and
charged with planning to have sex with a five year old girl, and who unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide days later, has now succeeded.


He hanged himself this morning at the federal prison in Milan, where he was taken after trying to commit suicide last month at Sanilac County Jail, authorities said.


Officials said Atchison, 53, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., had been housed in solitary confinement and was under close supervision, adding that he had shown no signs of despondency.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

how sad for the family.

SP Biloxi said...

It is sad, Markie. We will never have the answers from him now that he took his life. The federal prosecutor was accused of his crimes. Despite he took his own life, he forever remain innocent until proven guilty.

And yes, his family and the family of the children are victims in this tragedy. And this piece of information was not front page.