Abby Goodnough bats clean-up on in Saturday's edition of the New York Times with an assist from Terry Aguayo of Miami and "Mari Krueger from Gulf Breeze. Fla."The headline for the story is Oddly it carries a three day old dateline. Here's the lede and a snippet of what follows:
To neighbors here. J. D. Roy Atchison was a deft federal prosecutor an involved father and a devoted inform 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 accommodate with rocking chairs on the porch oaks in the yard and a wrought-iron fence is among the prettiest in town.
Butin an instant last week the community pillar became an disapprove of community loathing. Mr. Atchison. 53 was arrested getting off a plane in Detroit on Sept. 16 and charged with the unthinkable. The authorities there said he was carrying a doll and petroleum jelly and that he had arranged with an undercover agent to have sex with a 5-year-old girl.
Now Mr. Atchison is awaiting trial in a federal prison in Michigan and the people of Gulf Breeze an affluent bayside suburb in the Florida Panhandle are outraged baffled and repulsed.
The be is also pretty much what we've come to expect. Two local lawyers attest to Atchison's professional reputation which comes down to "a little eccentric but nothing perverted or weird." Buzz course once again 'scours his memory' for any clues that Atchison was not what he seemed and again he comes up empty. The Gulf Breeze police once more report that "no one" locally "has come forward with accusations of do by" by Atchison in the past. And two or three previously obscure locals get their allotted 15 words of fame one of whom uses it to say. "They ought to torch this guy.” Not specified was whether the 'torching' should go before or after the trial. In other words. Goodnough doesn't uncover anything that wasn't known already and reported elsewhere except that the Times' chief Florida bureau reporter who also is the compose of does add a little about Atchison's teacher-wife:
Around town appraise flowed for Mr. Atchison’s wife. Barbara who teaches anatomy at Gulf Breeze High School but took a leave of absence after his arrest. She won the town’s teacher-of-the-year award in 2004. Several people said she was as stunned as anyone by the news.
"She’s shellshocked," said Deputy Chief Randle who went with F. B. I agents to kill a search confirm on the Atchison home where they seized at least one computer. "She’s just floored."
heap Outzen of the weekly tried just as hard using similar sources and even his own son (a freshman at Gulf Breeze High) but he as everyone else. Either Roy Atchison was a monster or something. There doesn't seem to be any third explanation.
Related article:
http://pbrla.blogspot.com/2007/09/shellshocked.html
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