U.S. Ex-teacher slits his throat in O.C. court after being convicted of raping girl

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Jones had been released from custody after posting $1 million bail on July 25, 2013, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.

Jones was a teacher for 27 years at Bell High School in Bell and Gahr High School in Cerritos, according to prosecutors.

Brown said during Jones’ trial that his abuse of the girl — who is now 17 and was not one of his students — began when she was in the eighth grade.

Ex-teacher slits his throat in O.C. court after being convicted of raping girl - see, this is what happens to predators who do not seek out the safe haven that is allegedly Medford High

A Huntington Beach man slit his throat in a courtroom Wednesday morning after a jury found him guilty of raping a girl when she was 13. Jeffrey Scott Jones, 56, had just been convicted of two felony counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one felony count of continuous sexual abuse. As the verdict was announced at about 11 a.m. in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Jones produced a small razor blade and sliced his throat, according to Jones' attorney, Edward Welbourn, and Deputy Dist. Atty. Heather Brown. Jones was screaming and bleeding heavily from his neck while a sheriff’s deputy tried to restrain him and the jury was rushed from the room, Brown said. Welbourn said he saw ...

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