FLORIDA
Orlando Sentinel
By Erika Pesantes and Mike Clary, Sun Sentinel
He called his unlicensed foster home “London’s Hotel,” and there were always plenty of young boys checking in.
As a counselor at the Boys & Girls Club, a mentor at his Sistrunk Boulevard church and then a dean at a Lauderdale Lakes charter school, Jeffery London had access to dozens of poor and often-neglected kids who were too much for their financially strapped parents or other relatives to handle.
“Me and the boys. We became a family,” London said in a 2004 interview.
But inside London’s Hotel, say Broward prosecutors, at least some of the boys were subjected to a horrifying regime of sexual abuse occurring even as one of Broward County’s most respected charities paid for his Lauderdale Lakes home, bankrolled trips to colleges and the Grand Canyon, and funded his position as Eagle Academy dean of students.
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