FLORIDA
Orlando Sentinel
By Rafael A. Olmeda, Sun Sentinel
6:09 p.m. EDT, April 12, 2012
FORT LAUDERDALE —
Breathless and ill-at-ease, an alleged victim of former youth pastor Jeffery London told a packed Broward courtroom how he quickly came to dread the man he was told to trust.
London, 48, was ordered held without bail by Broward Circuit Judge Michael Usan, who found prosecutors had enough evidence of his guilt in 30 counts of sexual battery and child molestation to justify keeping him in custody until trial.
If convicted, London faces life in prison, and Assistant State Attorney Sheila Alu made it clear that she intends to seek “multiple life sentences.”
London, who denies the allegations, was asking Usan to set a reasonable bail, despite the growing number of accusers who say he abused his position of trust to coerce pre-teens and teenage boys in his care to allow him to have sex with them.
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