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Weird News: Florida Pastor TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE With Popping Pills After Molesting A Young Boy!
August 10, 2012GWL Staff
A Florida pastor convicted of sex crimes against a 15-year-old boy commits suicide after receiving his sentence on Thursday in an apparent courtroom suicide attempt.
West Palm Beach court deputies immediately jumped on Rev. James Harris and wrestled him to the ground while ordering him to spit out the poisonous pills. More details below..............
"Oh, my God, it's cyanide," the Palm Beach Post quoted a group of court interns whispering, as the officers worked to subdue the convicted sex offender.
The bizarre scene capped a three-day trial in which Harris was charged with sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy in 2008 and 2009, whom he promised to make a football star.
Using his connections with Glade Central High School's football program, the disgraced minister lured the boy with phony promises of introductions to professional football scouts and trainers, prosecutor said.
During the trial, a girl testified that Harris also secretly filmed her having sex with the boy when she was 14.
Both tapes were played for the jurors. Harris faced 80 years in prison and is set to be sentenced on Oct. 5.
Spokesmen at both the Palm Beach Sherrif’s Department and the courthouse said it wasn’t known what Harris tried to swallow.
According to the Post, Harris was convicted in 2009 of attacking a woman with a baseball bat at a local Elks Club.
He was sentenced to one year in prison in that case. And he was on suicide watch at the Palm Beach County Jail.
However, Thursday's incident recalled the case of a crooked former Wall Street trader who swallowed a cyanide pill in court in June after he was convicted of torching his Arizona mansion because he couldn't keep up with the payments.
Moments later, Marin began convulsing and fell on the floor. He was pronounced dead later at a local hospital.
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