FLORIDA
Local 10
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. –
A jury found a former youth pastor who ran a boys home that was not registered with the foster system not guilty of sexually abusing four boys Thursday.
The four boys, who are now ages 16 to 26, said Jeffrey London abused them for years when they were teenagers.
Jeffrey London stands accused of turning boys into sex boys in Broward.
London, who faces 27 counts of child abuse, said he allowed the boys to stay in his home, because they were in need of a paternal figure.
“I had a need to help,” London, 50, said Tuesday in front of Judge Michael Usan in Broward County court in Fort Lauderdale.
He met the neglected kids when he was a counselor at the Boys and Girls Club of Fort Lauderdale, a youth pastor at the Bible Church of God in Fort Lauderdale, and when he was a dean at Eagle Academy, a Lauderdale Lakes charter school.
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