{"id":74756,"date":"2016-11-22T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T21:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=74756"},"modified":"2016-11-28T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T00:23:14","slug":"child-predators-conviction-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/11\/22\/child-predators-conviction-upheld\/","title":{"rendered":"Child predator\u2019s conviction upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_65719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65719\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65719\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jeffrey-Thomas-guilty-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Lee Thomas [Image courtesy: Megan's Law website]\" width=\"624\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jeffrey-Thomas-guilty-1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jeffrey-Thomas-guilty-1-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Lee Thomas [Image courtesy: Megan&#8217;s Law website]<\/figcaption><\/figure><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LOS ANGELES &#8211; The California Supreme Court refused Tuesday to review the case against a registered sex offender who was convicted last year of sex-related charges involving two girls in Palmdale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jeffrey Lee Thomas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was sentenced in January to 270 years to life in prison after being found guilty of two counts of committing a lewd act on a child and one count of continuous sexual abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas &#8212; who lived in Palmdale &#8212; began abusing the 8- and 13-year-old girls after beginning a relationship with their mother, according to testimony presented during his trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was charged after the youngest girl told a medical professional what had happened, Deputy District Attorney Scott Yang said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas was previously convicted in 2002 of two lewd act counts and one forcible lewd act count involving children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In September, a three-justice panel from California&#8217;s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the defense&#8217;s argument that his trial was unfair because a judge allowed jurors to hear evidence about his prior sexual offenses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previous related stories:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/01\/08\/child-predator-gets-270-years\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Child predator gets 270 years<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/08\/17\/registered-sex-offender-convicted-of-molesting-2-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registered sex offender convicted of molesting 2 girls<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; The California Supreme Court refused Tuesday to review the case against a registered sex offender who was convicted last year of sex-related charges involving two girls in Palmdale. Jeffrey Lee Thomas was sentenced in January to 270 years to life in prison after being found guilty of two counts of committing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":65719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}