Sex offender charged with slashing 13-year-old's neck on Daytona Beach Boardwalk in random attack.
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Florida sex offender is behind bars after allegedly slashing a teenager's neck while he walked along the Daytona Beach Boardwalk with his parents on Valentine's Day.
After spending the day at the Daytona International Speedway, Sullivan Clarke, 13, was talking on the phone while walking back to his hotel with his parents.
His mother, Lori, saw a man approach Sullivan and quickly slice his neck.
"I thought he was stealing Sully's phone," Lori told affiliate
FOX 35 Orlando. "As soon as he slashed him, I yelled and I said ‘Hey!’"
Sullivan’s father, Jerod, said as soon as they realized what happened, they could see their son's neck "gashed wide open."
Doctors told the family if the cut had been one millimeter deeper, the
attack would have been fatal.
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