FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel
By Paula McMahon,
Sun Sentinel
Federal authorities are taking over the prosecution of a former Broward church and school official accused of sexually abusing more than a dozen boys in his care.
Jeffery London, 51, who was a youth mentor at Bible Church of God in Fort Lauderdale and dean of students at Eagle Charter Academy in Lauderdale Lakes, now faces a federal charge of using a cellphone to lure an underage boy into sexual activity with him. If convicted, he faces 10 years to life in federal prison.
The alleged victim in the federal case, filed this week, is one of the seven boys London was acquitted of sexually abusing after a two-week jury trial in Broward Circuit Court in April.
Legal experts said the new charge is not considered “double jeopardy” because it involves a different alleged crime and was filed in federal, not state, court.
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