Preferential treatment? Former Seminole County judicial candidate admits sex with teen, gets house arrest
A former candidate for Seminole County judge was sentenced to house arrest and probation as part of a plea deal to lesser charges for having sex with a teenage girl who worked on his campaign, court documents show.
XXXXX XXXXX was initially arrested and charged with unlawful sexual activity with a 17-year-old in September 2019.
Under a plea deal with the state Jones was not sentenced to any sexual offenses. The 42-year-old entered a guilty plea to child abuse, a third-degree felony, and tampering with evidence, also a third-degree felony.
On Thursday, a judge sentenced Jones to 2 years house arrest and 8 years probation. He must obey by a curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. and can only leave the home for work. He was also ordered to have no contact with the victim and must pay for her ongoing counseling services.
As part of the plea Jones admitted he had sex with a 17-year-old and then attempted to cover it up. He washed the sheets, deleted the Ring security video from two cameras that captured the victim in the home and bought the teen the “after morning” pill. He said he also only communicated with the victim via Snapchat “which was deleteable.”
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The modus operandi of the Floriduh “justice system” allows persons guilty of statutory rape of a teenager to plead down to “child abuse,” yet if guilty of simple possession of CP, you are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I use the term rape because anyone under the age of 18 cannot give consent. There is no rationale to this practice. I personally know of several men who were allowed to plead down even though the rapes went on for months.
Who in their right mind can believe that just looking at CP, without the victims knowledge, can do more harm to a child than physically assaulting that child repeatedly? Their is no common sense in the so-called justice system.
JZ, I totally agree. Got busted for purported CP even tho the prosecutor brought no evidence of actual minors and no experts testified as to ages of models in images. It was all speculation but jury convicted anyway. Now I have lifetime punishment after prison. Yet, this is worse than real sex with a real minor?
So we all agree that this is totally unacceptable! Will it is Seminole County, recent news from there points out how corrupt things are. Oh and what happened to the name of a certain Senator he seems to have disappeared. Oh well power and connection has it’s way. Seems that there should be an out cry from FAC, over this.
Don’t even know this guys name.
I wish we could have a class action lawsuit for those of equal crime vs this guy. If for nothing else for the media attention.
So, what does (Mr. X) do for a living?
He gets to go to work.
What field of endeavor is so important by doing it one can leverage this sweetheart deal?
Someone should sabotage his probation, than we’ll see just how a man who sat at the head of the strong arm of the law, likes those cookies!