FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel
By Paula McMahon
Sun Sentinel
Jurors found Jeffery London not guilty of 27 sex charges involving underage boys last year but the former youth pastor and charter school official will be back in court Thursday — this time facing a related federal charge.
London, 51, was acquitted of the state charges after a lengthy trial in Broward Circuit Court but stayed in jail because he was facing other criminal allegations.
Federal prosecutors took over the case against London in December and filed a lone criminal charge —using a cellphone to lure an underage boy into sexual activity — against him.
London has pleaded not guilty and jury selection is scheduled to begin Thursday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale. If convicted, he would face 10 years to life in federal prison.
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