{"id":122939,"date":"2022-09-22T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=122939"},"modified":"2022-09-22T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:15:13","slug":"oxford-man-arrested-for-sexual-battery-of-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-man-arrested-for-sexual-battery-of-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Man Arrested for Sexual Battery of a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday, September 17, 2022, <strong>Lafayette County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/strong> received a report of a minor being sexually assaulted by their mother\u2019s fianc\u00e9. Investigators began an investigation regarding the incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday September 19, 2022, <strong>Lafayette County Investigators<\/strong> formally charged <strong>Jessie Bernard Jones<\/strong>, 48 years old of <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong> for one count of Sexual Battery of a Child and one count of Molesting &#8211; Touching of a Child for Lustful Purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jones was arrested Monday afternoon and transported to the <strong>Lafayette County Detention Center<\/strong>. Jones was issued a $100,000.00 bond, set by a <strong>Justice Court Judge<\/strong>. Jones is also being held on a <strong>Mississippi Department of Corrections<\/strong> hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jessie-Jones-750.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jessie-Jones-750.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jessie-Jones-750.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jessie-Jones-750.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, September 17, 2022, Lafayette County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a report of a minor being sexually assaulted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1010,"featured_media":122867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[22587,22608,11024,5,15233,22589,4,22588],"class_list":["post-122939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-jessie-bernard-jones","tag-lafayette-county-investigators","tag-lafayette-county-sheriffs-office","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-department-of-corrections","tag-molesting-touching-of-a-child-for-lustful-purposes","tag-oxford","tag-sexual-battery-of-a-child"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jessie-Jones-750.jpg?fit=750%2C563&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}