FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel
By Paula McMahon
Sun Sentinel
Jurors took just 3 1/2 hours Tuesday to find Jeffery London, a church youth pastor, charter school disciplinarian and unofficial foster parent, guilty of a federal sex abuse charge.
London, 51, showed no visible reaction to the verdict. He faces 10 years to life in federal prison when he’s sentenced in August for using a cellphone to lure an underage boy into sexual activity.
The victim seemed overwhelmed by emotion and relief and put his head to his knees when the guilty verdict was announced in federal court in Fort Lauderdale. Later, he hugged prosecutors Francis Viamontes and Jodi Anton and the FBI agents who handled the case.
Now 20, the victim declined to comment on the verdict. He testified that London began sexually abusing him when he was just 7 years old and the assaults went on until he was 16.
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