Man who faked death to avoid child rape charges gets 85 years in prison
Jacob Blair Scott (photo credit: US Marshals Service) PASCAGOULA, Miss. - A military veteran who once faked his own death to try to avoid criminal charges has been convicted of sexually assaulting a girl and impregnating her when he was 40 and she was 14.A jury convicted Jacob Blair Scott of Moss Point, Mississippi, on Thursday.
Jackson County Circuit Judge Kathy King Jackson sentenced him to 85 years in prison, saying it is essentially a life sentence.
She also ordered him to pay $10,000 in fines."The evidence is overwhelming," Jackson said. "It’s more evidence than I’ve probably ever seen."The Sun Herald reported Scott was emotionless when a jury found him guilty of nine counts of sexual battery, four counts of touching a child for lustful purposes and one count of child exploitation.Scott, 45, is a military veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart in 2011 for injuries he received while deployed in Iraq, according to the U.S.
Marshals Service, which had once listed him as one of its 15 most wanted fugitives.Scott was supposed to turn himself in to face charges of assaulting the girl, but he faked his death in July 2018 by leaving a small boat with a gun and a suicide note in Orange Beach, Alabama, WLOX-TV reported.Authorities found little evidence of a suicide but searched for a body for more than a week in the Gulf of Mexico.
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