Former Seminole County prosecutor accused of sex with minor
Andrew Jones, former assistant state attorney in Seminole County was arrested Monday night and charged with three counts of violating F.S. 794.05(1) – Unlawful sexual activity with a minor 16/17 years of age. Jones, who happened to be running for Judge at the time, has withdrawn his candidacy.
And once again the registry had failed. Again someone NOT on the registry playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes.
This highlights one thing society fails to grasp about sexual offending. Even “upstanding” people can be subject to poor judgment and end up offending. Until their views shift on these behaviors, we will continue to add more people to the trash heap of society rather than dealing productively with this issue to reduce its prevalence.
Like trying to use a sledgehammer to rid your house of ants, society wields the justice system and the registry as a fix-all for its woes, and the collateral destruction it brings to our families and communities is impossible to ignore any longer.
I’m not surprised this guy is from $emenh0le County. It ranks right up there with Puke County as the worst two in Floriduh for registered citizens, as far as I know. Yes, Karma is a bit¢h! Welcome to the world you help create!
There are more offenders off the registry than are on the registry since they just haven’t been caught yet. People in high places and making the most noise are the ones we should be wary of and not those who have done their time and paid their debt to society. Oh I forgot that debt will never be paid since we have a registry that changes all the time and little traps along the way to incarcerate over an honest overlooked item.
Well those laws and rules are two fold. The law makers make the laws then law enforcement decides who they want to use that law and up to you and your attorney and a judge to decide otherwise.
For example, someone I know measured 1000 feet to a school “driving” on roads as the map would take you and bought a house based on that. He was then told he had to move because law enforcement use a map with a straight line from his house to the school. That line crossed a retention , some woods and a business but was shorter than 1000 feet. I do not know what the outcome decision was because I never saw him again, but that just may be because we register at different times.
I can tell you how that turned out. They use the “straight line” method. Period!
Thank goodness the registry protected that victim from the prosecutor. Surely he was on the registry before committing his crime. Wonder how many he was responsible for adding to the registry over the years?
Could this cause Seminole County to have to look back at all of the sex-related cases that he handled?
A Michigan prosecutor has also been accused of his own sexual wrongdoing and at the end of the article it states: “…a number of cases that have now all been called into question.” His case, though, probably did not involve a minor.
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan-assistant-attorney-general-resigns-after-admitting-to-improper-relationship
I would just be happy if Seminole County gave him probation but withdrew their ordinance that makes it almost impossible for anyone on the registry to travel through their county. I would like to see him on the registry (if he is truly guilty), though, so that he could help out FAC’s legal team.