FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel
By Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel
5:30 a.m. EDT, April 9, 2014
Jeffery London, the former youth pastor accused of molesting more than a dozen teenage boys at his homes in Coral Springs and Lauderdale Lakes, took the stand Tuesday to tell a Broward jury that he is innocent.
London, 50, is on trial for 27 counts of sexual battery and lewd and lascivious conduct, all involving teenagers entrusted to his care between 2000 and 2011. The trial involves four alleged victims, with three others having testified to similar behavior in the same time period.
The names of the victims are being withheld by the Sun Sentinel because of the nature of the allegations.
But the defendant, under questioning from defense lawyer Lourdes Gonzalez, denied it all.
“Have you ever had a sexual encounter of any kind with any of these boys?” Gonzalez asked.
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