Sex Offender Listing Prompts Suicide of 20 Year-Old

borgy1 writes "He maintained an ``A'' average at Oakland Community College and planned to start a computer business with his father.

Then his past came back to haunt him.

Fawcett, who as a teenager was charged with statutory rape for having sex with a fellow high school student, learned his name would appear for 25 years on the state's sex offender registry, despite a plea agreement that allowed him to avoid inclusion on the list.

A few weeks later, on March 19, the 20-year-old was found dead of an apparent drug overdose at his boyhood home in West Bloomfield Township. Story link."

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