Sex Abuse Trial Begins for Former Youth Pastor Jeffery London

FLORIDA
NBC Miami

[with video]

By Gilma Avalos | Wednesday, Apr 2, 2014

Now 25-years-old, a witness took the stand Tuesday against the man who allegedly sexually abused him for almost a decade when he was a child.

The victim didn’t want to look at Jeffery London, 50, a former youth pastor. London, who was a mentor at the Bible Church of God and dean of students at Eagle Charter Academy, is being tried for 27 counts of lewd and lascivious molestation and sexual battery on a minor, according to the Sun Sentinel.

“I don’t want to look at him,” the victim said on the stand.

“Let me ask the question. Do you see the person in the courtroom here today who sexually abused you from the age of 11 to 18?” prosecutors asked.

“Yes,” he responded.

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