Judge Sets Sentencing for Convicted Sex Offender Jackson

An August sentencing date has been set for former Olympic boxer John Jackson. Jackson, 32, was convicted of sexually abusing three teenage girls and recording those encounters on cell phones.

On Monday, Chief District Court Judge Robert Molloy ordered Jackson to appear at a sentencing hearing on Aug. 24 at 10 a.m. at the Ron deLugo Federal Courthouse on St. Thomas. On that day, the defendant faces a maximum term of life in prison.

Jurors took roughly six hours to deliberate and render a verdict on April 22, at the end of a four-day trial. The panel delivered guilty verdicts on six criminal counts, some federal and some local, including first-degree rape. Prosecutors produced witnesses who testified that in at least one instance, an intoxicating substance was given to one victim that could have left her in a stupor and unable to resist Jackson’s advances.

When the sentence is read by the court in August, it’s expected to spell out the penalties for both local and federal offenses. A source close to the case who asked to go unnamed pointed to a provision in Virgin Islands law that allows the court to sentence defendants in cases of this kind involving multiple offenses.