Lawsuit: Church and Charter School Enabled Man to Use Kids as “Sex Slaves”

FLORIDA
New Times

By Kyle Swenson Mon., Sep. 15 2014

In 2012, Jeffery London, a former youth pastor and charter-school dean of students, was accused of a vicious pattern of sexual assault with the poor kids he let stay with him at an unlicensed foster home dubbed “London’s Hotel.” The investigation reportedly involved up to 40 possible victims.

When London went to trial in early 2014, a jury found him not guilty. But this October, he’s scheduled to again face a jury on 18 additional criminal charges coming from four more accusers.

Additionally, a civil lawsuit has dropped in Broward filed by four alleged John Doe victims rehashing the allegations. The target of this suit: not London but the charitable institutions that allegedly enabled the abuse.

One of the suit’s targets is the estate of Elizabeth Buntrock, a now-deceased philanthropist. According to documents filed in court, in 2000, London…