The Duval County sex charge that had been the hammer for the state when now 13-year-old Cristian Fernandez refused to plead to first-degree murder was dropped by prosecutors last week. The state dropped the Jacksonville sex crime citing a lack of evidence, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The decision is interesting in…
Continue reading ›A Jacksonville judge handed down six consecutive life sentences to a man found guilty of knowingly allowing a convicted sexual offender to live in his daughter’s room and ultimately molest her. Christopher Scott Perry was convicted of five counts of principal to Jacksonville sexual battery on a child younger than 12, according to a report…
Continue reading ›A former Jacksonville police officer will spend 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting two young girls and then admitting to doing the same things to other children over most of his law enforcement career. Richard Cannon was a Jacksonville police officer for 25 years before his arrest on 13 Duval County sex…
Continue reading ›The legal chess match continues to be interesting theater in the case of Cristian Fernandez, the youngest person in the state of Florida to be charged with first degree murder. Last month, a Jacksonville judge threw out video interviews of police interrogations of Fernandez, ruling that the then-12-year-old did not understand that he was waiving…
Continue reading ›A Jacksonville man walked out of court a free man last week, acquitted of Duval County sex charges that he molested his 2-year-old daughter more than six years ago. Jerry Paul Tippins had been in jail for more than six years awaiting the trial, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. He was initially…
Continue reading ›A former Jacksonville high school teacher pleaded guilty to sexually abusing one of his former students and two counts of unlawful sex with a minor in Duval County. But instead of getting the 15 years in prison he was facing, Leonard Adams Hoffman, was sentenced last week to one year in the Duval County jail,…
Continue reading ›Two family members accused of allowing a convicted sex offender to live in their home and abuse their young daughter are now scheduled to go to trial at the same time as the alleged abuser. The state plans to seat one jury for Christopher Perry, 41, charged with five counts of sexual battery in Jacksonville…
Continue reading ›A University of North Florida student was arrested in Jacksonville last week for filing a false police report after her story about being sexually assaulted in Jacksonville in a recreation center locker room didn’t check out. The woman was charged with filing a false report by the University Police Department, which said several women have…
Continue reading ›A Jacksonville man sentenced to life in prison for rape while the co-defendant who testified against him got less than a year in Duval County jail was released last week after 25 years behind bars. DNA evidence that questions Billy Joe Holton’s involvement in the case brought some attention to his plight, but a Jacksonville…
Continue reading ›Guilty pleas and sentences are now rolling in for the 19 men caught in an undercover, underage sex sting in Clay County and there appear to be few outliers in terms of the punishment. Last week, the tenth defendant in the case was sentenced to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to the Clay…
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