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Prosecutor accused of sex crime kills self
Associated Press
Published October 6, 2007
DETROIT - A federal prosecutor from Florida accused of flying to Detroit last month to have sex with a 5-year-old girl has committed suicide in his cell in the Milan federal prison. Assistant U.S. Attorney John D.R. Atchison was found unresponsive, taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead at 10:17 a.m., according to Felicia Ponce, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington. Atchison was an assistant U.S. attorney in northern Florida, based in Pensacola. Atchison had been charged with three felonies. The most serious charge was crossing state lines with intent to have sex with someone younger than 12, which carries a minimum 30-year prison sentence and a maximum of life.
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