Federal Prosecutor Arrested In Child Sex Sting
POSTED: 2:04 pm EDT September 17, 2007
UPDATED: 8:28 am EDT September 18, 2007
(IS THIS WHAT PORN IS DOING TO MEN ?)
DETROIT -- A U.S. Justice Department official has been arrested on suspicion of traveling to Detroit over the weekend to have sex with a minor.
John David R. Atchison, 53, an assistant U.S. attorney from the northern district of Florida, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Detroit Monday afternoon.
An undercover officer posed as a mother offering her child to Atchison for sex, according to police.
Prosecutors said Atchison flew from Pensacola, Fla., to Detroit on Sunday intending to have sex with the 5-year-old girl.
He was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
He is charged with enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.
According to authorities, Atchison made contact with a detective working undercover for the Macomb County Sheriff's department's.
The detective, acting as the child's mother, allegedly arranged a sexual encounter between Atchison and her 5-year-old daughter, police said.
In deposition, detectives said Atchison suggested the mother tell her daughter that "you found her a sweet boyfriend who will bring her presents."
The undercover detective expressed concern about physical injury to the 5-year-old girl as a result of the sexual activity. Detectives said Atchison responded, " I am always gentle and loving; not to worry, no damage ever, no rough stuff ever. I only like it soft and nice."
The undercover detective asked how Atchison can be certain of no injury. He responded, "Just gotta go slow and very easy. I've done it plenty," according to detectives.
Atchison, a member of the Florida bar association since 1984, lives in Gulf Breeze, Fla., near Pensacola.
He is president of the Gulf Breeze Sports Association, a youth athletics organization.
He described himself online as a family man. His wife is a science teacher at Gulf Breeze High School.
The Macomb County Sheriff's Department and the FBI were a part of the investigation.
Atchison remains in federal custody and a detention hearing will be held on Tuesday.
this is ridiculous. wtf is going on in the world that is making people pedophiles.
This is why the spirit behind washington is perversion and Lies.
Many things are wrong with the decision makers in our country and this is one of them.
This guy is married with children and 53 yrs old wasup wit dat?
Pornography is a heck of a drug!
lol at playa always blaming outside forces instead of the individual
New Charge For U.S Prosecutor Accused Of Seeking Sex With Girl, 5
UPDATED: 11:19 am EDT September 19, 2007
A U.S. prosecutor and youth sports leader from Florida who authorities say flew to Michigan for an expected sexual encounter with a 5-year-old girl has been indicted on an additional charge and ordered held without bond.
U.S. Magistrate Virginia M. Morgan also lifted a suicide watch for John D.R. Atchison.
Atchison, 53, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., is an assistant U.S. attorney in northern Florida, based in Pensacola. He is married with three children and has been active in youth sports in his hometown.
He was arrested Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after arriving for a meeting with what he thought was the mother of a 5-year-old girl with whom he arranged to have sex, authorities said. In fact, the woman was a Macomb County sheriff's detective and part of an Internet sex sting operation.
He originally faced charges of use of the Internet to seek illicit sex, which carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of 30 years; and interstate travel to engage in illicit sexual contact, which carries up to 30 years.
On Tuesday, a federal grand jury added a charge of crossing state lines with intent to have sex with someone under 12, which carries a minimum 30-year prison sentence and a maximum of life.
Defense lawyer James Thomas declined comment after the hearing.
Atchison's boss, U.S. Attorney Gregory R. Miller, said in a statement Tuesday that his staff was "deeply saddened by the arrest." He said his office was cooperating with the FBI, U.S. prosecutors and Michigan investigators and believed that "in the end, justice will be served."
The status of Atchison's employment was unclear.
"We are, of course, concerned about the welfare of Mr. Atchison's family, he added. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to them."
Federal agents obtained a search warrant Monday for Atchison's Florida home. There was no word on what they sought or found.
Atchison is president of the Gulf Breeze Sports Association, which runs youth baseball, softball, cheer leading, soccer, football and basketball programs. The group said that it was placing him on leave until the charges were resolved.
"Roy Atchison has been a valued member of the Gulf Breeze community and the Gulf Breeze Sports Association for the past decade," the group's vice president, Mike Mabry, said in a written statement Wednesday.
According to an FBI affidavit, Atchison sent an instant message Aug. 29 to Macomb County sheriff's Detective Linda Findlay, who is part of the 6-year-old Macomb Area Computer Enforcement Team.
"Findlay created an online undercover persona ... of a mother with minor children who is interested in allowing men to have sex with her children," FBI Agent Matthew A. Bowman wrote.
Atchison messaged her that he was "very much a family man," Bowman said.
The prosecutor and undercover detective held almost daily online chats after that, and he told her that he wanted to have oral, vaginal and anal sex with the young girl, the FBI agent said.
On Sunday, Atchison flew from Pensacola to Houston and then to Detroit Metro, where he was to meet the mother, the affidavit said.
Instead, federal and county agents arrested him.
He was carrying presents for the girl, including a doll and hoop earrings, and also had sexual materials, including petroleum jelly, Sheriff Mark Hackel said.
The moment of arrest gave authorities something they lacked until that moment -- certainty that they had the right man, Hackel told AP Television News.
"Actually going to meet the person provides the opportunity for law enforcement to say, `This is the person that was behind the computer that was typing on the computer, indicating that they wanted to have sex with a child,"' the sheriff said.
YEA Kam his computer was the weapon
Posted by kam77:
Ban computers!
Porn should be banned , especially "CHILD PORN" ! 53 YR OLD U.S Prosecutor travels across country (fla-det)to have sex with a 5 yr old because he thought the parent was allowing the child to have sex with his old tail...are you kidding me
Child porn already is banned dude. Where are you getting the connection between porn and what this guy did?
Anybody who likes to HAVE SEX with little children and have access to a computer usually have child porn on their PC. DUH!
So then what came first? the desire, then the porn or the porn then the desire? You didn't make a case.
playa, why even bring this shit up anyway? I can't even bring myself to read the whole article. Sick, just fucking sick.
It would be interesting to note that in my other life of research, Gulf Breeze, FL has been a hot bed of UFO activity. I mean there are' a lot of strange people in Florida. I mean Bush's brother Judd is there and...........well..............you get the picture..............
Do they found pedofiles amoung alians?
Hell if I' know. Aliens look' like children themselves, so does it count?
Posted by kam77:
So then what came first? the desire, then the porn or the porn then the desire? You didn't make a case.
Of course the desire came first, but my point is child porn maybe persuading some to act out what they are viewing by becoming addicted to it.
Look at the links about our govt officials and elitist=pedophiles.^
