Town Is Shaken After Prosecutor’s Arrest in a Child-Sex Sting

[rodeodance]

September 29, 2007
Town Is Shaken After Prosecutor’s Arrest in a Child-Sex Sting
By ABBY GOODNOUGH

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/us/29florida.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print

GULF BREEZE, Fla., Sept. 25 — To neighbors here, J. D. Roy Atchison was a deft federal prosecutor, an involved father and a devoted volunteer, coaching girls’ softball and basketball teams year in and year out.

His wife is a popular science teacher; his youngest daughter, an honors student who was on her high school homecoming court last year. Their house, with rocking chairs on the porch, oaks in the yard and a wrought-iron fence, is among the prettiest in town.

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Mr. Atchison has worked at the small United States Attorney’s Office in Pensacola since the 1980s, most recently handling asset forfeitures in criminal cases as an assistant United States attorney. In one high-profile case, Mr. Atchison oversaw the government seizure of a popular beach bar at the center of a cocaine-trafficking ring.

His is considered one of the most conservative United States attorney’s offices in the country, known for refusing plea agreements and seeking the stiffest sentences.

[Hepburn]

1. Seems like the was living a lie.

A complete lie and what kind of garbage he was on the inside, he sure as hell worked hard to cover it up on the outside.

One sick SOB, IMO.

[flashl]

2. This area puts the "J" in Jena

and their "legal systems" antics would make the Duke Lacrosse and the Jena stories appear as cerebral as "little red riding hood".

Black inmates continously die mysterious in the local jail with no action from the distinguish U.S. Atttorney's office.

Edit: I can not find the very detailed stories about the deaths in the local jail yet, but this is one.
FBI will revisit the Escambia County Jail death of Robert Boggan

[indepat]

3. May the prosecutor seek the stiffest sentence

[MADem]

4. More BushCo - Gonzales flotsam.... disgusting. NT

[kurth]

5. Conservative = Whoring, thieving, child-molesting churchgoer

[Stuckinthebush]

6. A sick and twisted tale

This guy will be in prison for a long time and he will be in a living hell daily. The prisoners hate child molesters and will treat him like the scum he is. As a prosecutor, he knows this and I wouldn't doubt if it was one of the reasons he tried to hang himself.

The bigger question that we have to ask ourselves is "why?". What early psychological damage was inflicted on this man to turn him into a 57 year old molester of five year olds? Some wiring is clearly off here, and our society needs to find out what and why and how. In all other aspects of his life he was an upstanding citizen it seems. The dark secret of his sexual "needs" is so bizarre and twisted that we recoil in horror. What otherwise normal adult (with children of his own no less) could justify the rape of a five year old? Where in his mind did he go with that? How did he figure it wouldn't scar a human for life? Was he callous and just didn't care - out for his own enjoyment? Did he believe that the child would benefit from it? Did he secretly wish to get caught? What the hell was this guy thinking?

One hopes that his statement about doing it "plenty" was just BS used to make a mother feel good about him. One hopes that he had never done it before. One hopes that no child was left alone with this man. One hopes...

Lord, this is a sad, sick, twisted story.

[NOLALady]

7. Possibly, he's just an asshole.