The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has charged Jovon Antwon Jenkins (Age 45 of Grand Terrace) with sexual assault crimes involving a juvenile.
CASE SYNOPSIS
On Sunday, May 10, 2020, deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department – Central Sheriff’s Station, received a report of a suspicious relationship between Jovon Antwon Jenkins and a person under 18 years of age.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Crimes Against Children Detail completed an investigation. Jenkins was arrested.
After reviewing this case, our office has filed one count for each violation of the following sections of the California Penal Code, against Jenkins:
Penal Code Section 288.4(b) – Going To Meet Minor For Lewd Purposes
(a) (1) Every person who, motivated by an unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in children, arranges a meeting with a minor or a person he or she believes to be a minor for the purpose of exposing his or her genitals or pubic or rectal area, having the child expose his or her genitals or pubic or rectal area, or engaging in lewd or lascivious behavior, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment.
(b) Every person described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) who goes to the arranged meeting place at or about the arranged time, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years.
Penal Code Section – Oral Copulation Of A Person Under 18
(a) Oral copulation is the act of copulating the mouth of one person with the sexual organ or anus of another person.
(b) (1) Except as provided in Section 288, any person who participates in an act of oral copulation with another person who is under 18 years of age shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year.
Penal Code Section 286(b)(1) – Sodomy Of A Person Under 18
(a) Sodomy is sexual conduct consisting of contact between the penis of one person and the anus of another person. Any sexual penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime of sodomy.
(b) (1) Except as provided in Section 288, any person who participates in an act of sodomy with another person who is under 18 years of age shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for not more than one year.
CASE INFORMATION
DA Case Number: 2020-00-0026232
Court Case Number: Not available at this time
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