1-26-2010 Georgia:VALDOSTA, GA (WALB) –Authorities have now charged a Valdosta State Prison inmate with murdering a fellow inmate.
Anthony Rogers is accused of killing John W Arnett last Wednesday night (1-20-2010) at the Prison.
Rogers is already serving a life sentence for a 1997 Murder in Savannah.
Arnett was serving time for Child Molestation in Appling and Bartow Counties.
Arnett was found Thursday morning and later pronounced dead at South Georgia Medical Center.
The Corrections Department did not release details on how Arnett was killed. ..Source.. by WALB News
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Convicted child molester strangled in prison
1-26-2010 Georgia:
A 27-year-old Valdosta State Prison inmate was strangled to death, according to the Lowndes County coroner.
John Arnett, who was convicted of child molestation in both Bartow and Appling counties, was found in his cell last Thursday. The cause of death was manual strangulation, according to Coroner Bill Watson.
Arnett's sentence began last July, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.
An inmate already serving time for a previous murder conviction has been accused in Arnett's death. Anthony Rogers has been in jail since October 1998 following his conviction for murder in the Savannah area.
Arnett is at least the third state inmate to die in recent weeks.
On Jan. 1, guards at the state prison in Jackson found 35-year-old Leeland Mark Braley hanging in his cell. Prison officials say Braley, sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of a Zebulon insurance agent, apparently took his own life.
Timothy Pruitt's death more than three weeks earlier was ruled an "alleged suicide," though his death remains under investigation. ..Source.. by Alexis Stevens, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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