FLORIDA
Local 10
[with video]
Bob Norman
I’ve never heard such gut-wrenching testimony in a courtroom in my life. It came from an 18-year-old student who yesterday alleged ten years of sexual abuse by the man who was a father figure to him, Jeffery London, his pastor.
“After church this man would come home and do it with me,” said the student on the stand. “How could I believe in God if he’s doing this to me? I was so twisted.”
The boy is far from alone. Seven alleged victims of London were in Broward Circuit Judge Michael Usan’s courtroom yesterday, willing to testify to convince the judge not to give him bond. London so far has been formally charged in six cases, but if what a growing number of alleged victims are saying is true, he’s one the worst sexual predators in Broward County history.
More than 30 young males have now come forward against him, said prosecutor Sheila Alu at yesterday’s hearing, adding that London sexually assaulted the boys over a period of decades, turning them into “sex slaves.”
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