Former NFL cheerleader Sarah Jones : I’m not the female Jerry Sandusky
Sarah Jones, a former cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals now facing sex crime charges, is defying the prosecution's appeal that she stop talking to the media. "I read on a blog that I was the female[Jerry] Sandusky," Jones told ABC News. "To read those things and not be able to comment,not be able to stick up for myself is not fair."
Indeed, this case is a far cry from the Sandusky case. Jones, 27, is answerable with having sex with an underage student at a high school where she taught, The Kentucky Enquirer reported. But the alleged victim did not press charges. But the declared victim did not columnist charges. In fact, his ancestors is on Jones' side, abutting her in cloister as one of her supporters, ABC reported. What's more, the boy is 17-years-old, one year abbreviate of acceptable a acknowledged adult.
In a contentious court battle Monday, prosecutors asked for a gag adjustment to stop pretrial publicity. The adjudicator has not yet fabricated a accommodation about the gag order, the Kentucky Enquirer reported. Jones' advocate Eric Deters meanwhile accursed aback at the prosecution, accusing them of aperture Jones' argument letters to the media.
In addition to first-degree sex abuse, Jones is additionally charged with sending "steamy" argument messages to the boy, or, in boring legal terms, "unlawful use of electronic means to induce a minor to engage in sexual or other prohibited activities." In a radio account aftermost week, Jones' advocate said that the case was aboriginal sparked by comments fabricated by the declared victim's ex-girlfriend, the Kentucky Post reported.