Ex-pastor, school official faces life in prison for teen sex charge

FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel

By Paula McMahon
Sun Sentinel

Former church youth pastor, charter school leader and unofficial foster parent Jeffery London faces a maximum of life in federal prison when he is sentenced today for using a cellphone to lure an underage boy into sexual activity with him.

But London’s defense says he should get a maximum punishment of 15 years for the lone sex crime he has been convicted of committing.

London, 51, was acquitted of 27 state child sex abuse charges after a jury trial in state court in Broward in April 2014.

But in June, another jury found him guilty of persuading, inducing, enticing and coercing a 16-year old boy to engage in sexual activity after a separate trial in federal court in Fort Lauderdale.

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