FLORIDA
Local 10
[with video]
Author: Victor Oquendo, Reporter, voquendo@Local10.com
John Turchin, Crime Specialist, jturchin@local10.com
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. –
It was a difficult day in court Tuesday as four of Jeffery London’s alleged victims testified, taking everyone through the abuse and describing what it’s been like since they lived with London.
“He’s the gentleman right there,” said one alleged victim. When asked how old he was when the abuse allegedly began, he said, “I was 14.”
Years after the young men said London sexually abused and beat them, the wounds are still fresh.
“I thought, ‘Why would God allow this?’ But at the same time I thought it was right because he was blessed,” another alleged victim said.
On the surface, London was a pillar of the community — a pastor, a counselor at the Boys & Girls Club, dean of students at a local charter school and he would even take homeless and troubled boys into his home.
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