Jackson Jambalaya

The Justice Department issued the following statement. 

A Jackson man was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for production of child pornography involving minors he met through volunteering with various Jackson Public School bands, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.

According to court documents, Jerrell Lea’Shun Jackson, 34, used his association with the Jackson State University Sonic Boom to entice unsuspecting minors to his apartment and the bus barn for sexually explicit conduct and filming.  Jackson preyed on the most vulnerable children by fixing their band instruments, giving them a ride home after band practices and buying them food.

Jackson pled guilty on June 14, 2021 to production of child pornography.

The case was investigated by the Jackson Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office and the Jackson Public School Campus Enforcement. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Glenda R. Haynes prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. 

Kingfish note: JJ reported a year ago:

A sexual predator rampaged through the Callaway High School band program until caught last year. 32 year-old Jerrell Jackson had sex with numerous girls in the Callaway band program.  One victim was only 14.    Jackson was a volunteer band director and a driver for Cline Bus Tours. His abuse of the girls included blindfolding and binding the girls, and passing them off to other males, some still in high school.  To commemorate his conquests, Jackson videotaped it all on his phone.  Jackson pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual battery and human trafficking last month in Madison County and is serving a prison sentence of 40 years.      ....

Jackson followed the same pattern in each rape.  The band volunteer selected his targets, the younger the better.  He offered to give them rides home from band practice and give them his number.  Some accepted.  Eventually he had sex with the victim.  He tied the victim's hands and blindfolded her.  Unknown to the girl, another male would have sex with her while Jackson quietly videotaped it all.  Jackson slept with each girl multiple times.  

One girl met Jackson when she began attending Callaway.  Jackson gave her his phone number and told her to text him if she ever needed a ride home from band practice.  He told her he was 27 and soon began putting the moves on her.  They first had sex in May 2017 on a Cline bus in Ridgeland (p.3).  She said they had sex "no more than 20 times at Cline Bus Tours."...

A victim told Ridgeland police Jackson lived at Advantage Apartments (McWillie Circle, Jackson).  They had sex multiple times.  She said Jackson was "into bondage."  He tied her hands and blindfolded her during sex.  When he was finished, he said he had to get something out of his car.  The "something" was actually a "someone" in the form of another man. The new man had sex with the bound teen while Jackson videotaped it all.   They had sex from September 2017 until February 2018 when she ended the relationship.  He retaliated by trying to kick her off the drum line a few months later.

Jackson's sexcapades were not exactly a secret in the Callaway band because other band members told the victim Jackson liked to record the girls with whom he had sex.

Unfortunately, the victim was not the first one to tell a parent about the bus driver.  Jackson made a pass at another female band member on a trip to Atlanta.  The girl said no and told a friend.  The friend told her mom.  Mom was no dummy and figured some of it out.  She called the victim and asked if anything ever happened between her and Jackson.  The girl broke down and told the mother everything.  Mom told the victim's mom.  The parents notified JPD, who in turn assigned an investigator.  JPS arrested him on May 23, 2019.   JPS contacted Ridgeland police. The mother signed charges against Jackson in Ridgeland.  One can only imagine the horror these parents felt when they realized what happened to their daughters.  

Unfortunately, the story does not end with this victim.  A search of Jackson's apartment yielded an SD card with pictures and 40 videos of Jackson and other men having sex with girls in the Callaway band program.  The videos were recorded at both his apartment and Cline Bus Tours in Ridgeland.   

A second victim met Jackson on Instagram when she was in 8th grade.  They began texting.  She rode with him to a band event at JSU during the summer of her 8th grade year. He took the 14 year old to his apartment.  She was hesitant but they eventually had sex.  He told her he was 28 years old when he was really 32 years old.  The sexual relationship lasted from that summer until March 2019.  He would take her to various places and have sex with her.  He tied her hands and blindfolded her as well.  Unknown men had sex with her while he videotaped the illegal copulation.  She said they had sex more than thirty times.  She recognized one male in a picture as a Callaway student.

Another victim met Jackson when she was a freshman.  They began talking and he eventually took her home after band practice.  He paid for half of a band trip to Atlanta for her since her mother could not afford it.  They began having sex during her sophomore year.  She was tied up and blindfolded as well.  Jackson videotaped their sexual encounters.  He asked her to engage in a threesome with another female but she declined.

Jackson raped a fourth student, following the same pattern.  He gave a female band member a ride home.  They got to know each other.  They had sex.  More  bondage and voyeurism took place.  Jackson secretly had another male have sex with her while he recorded.  She later recognized the male as a student at Jim Hill High School.  The episode really upset her and she broke things off with Jackson.  Jackson again retaliated by trashing her to the rest of the band.... Earlier post and police reports.