The Epitome of Bleeding Heart LiberalismSheesh, read
this article.
That person — authorities don't know who — found an entry about Claxton's molestation of a young girl 15 years ago, printed it out on bright yellow paper and blanketed the neighborhood with dozens of fliers.
The poster didn't mention that the 5-foot-9, 135-pound Claxton relied on a wheelchair, that police no longer considered him a serious threat and that he had no further sex offenses. But the flier's creator saw fit to add something incendiary. At the bottom of the page, in bold block letters, were the words "CHILD RAPIST."
Four days after the fliers appeared, 38-year-old Chuckie Claxton was found dead, an empty bottle of scotch, a bag of pills and one of the posters beside him.Now the article goes out of its way to convince us that it was a suicide by an otherwise okay guy who just made one mistake, and after all, he was in a wheelchair. Except....
1. Chuckie was in the wheelchair when he molested the girl:
A flu vaccination at age 10 led to a viral infection that put the avid Cub Scout into a coma. He awoke to a world of wheelchairs and leg braces, of seizures and epilepsy and no bladder control — a world, Jane and Chuck Claxton say, in which mentally he would be forever a boy.
In 1991, prosecutors in Tacoma, Wash., charged the then-24-year-old Claxton with two counts of first-degree child rape. Police say Claxton took his caretaker's 6-year-old daughter up to the attic on several occasions, had oral sex with her and forced her to perform oral sex on him.2. The "suicide" part is undercut by this:
In January, he overdosed on alcohol, pills and cocaine. He was in a coma for a week.The posters didn't appear in the neighborhood until April 18th. So what was the reason for his "suicide" attempt back then? The obvious answer is that there was none, he just drank and did coke and pills. So why the assumption that he committed suicide this time?
And absurdly there's this little tidbit:
They ripped it down. But the following day, Claxton saw another flier while riding his scooter down the road — this one with the "CHILD RAPIST" warning.
"That's not true, Mom," Jane Claxton recalls him shouting.To review:
In 1991, prosecutors in Tacoma, Wash., charged the then-24-year-old Claxton with two counts of first-degree child rape.Sheesh!
