FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel
[with video]
By Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel
7:14 p.m. EDT, April 2, 2014
The former wife of a youth mentor accused of repeatedly molesting teenage boys in his care took the stand on Wednesday, telling a Broward jury that she once walked in on her husband and one of his accusers.
Aretha Wimberly, a Fort Lauderdale code enforcement officer, was married to Jeffery London from 2000 until 2003, but she testified that she was always uncomfortable with the fact that her husband kept taking charge of teenage boys who lived with them for months at a time.
Wimberly said she married London in 2000 and moved into his home in Coral Springs, not knowing at the time that the home was purchased by another person who intended for London to use it to house teenage boys with no place else to go. The boys testified that they looked to London as a father figure.
London, who later moved to Lauderdale Lakes, is charged with sexual battery and molestation of four victims. Three others testified he did the same thing to them, but they are not included in the formal charges. London, 50, faces life in prison if convicted.
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