FED PROSECUTOR/SEX PERV COMMITS SUICIDE
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UPDATE: Photo: J.D. Roy Atchison, a 53-year-old federal prosecutor from Gulf Breeze, Fla., was jailed two weeks ago after allegedly flying to Detroit to have sex with a 5 year old child.
J.D. Roy Atchison, the federal prosecutor from Florida who was jailed two weeks ago after allegedly flying to Detroit to have sex with a child, committed suicide, authorities said today.
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.