Ventura Transient Sentenced To Life In Prison For Extensive Child Sexual Abuse

Monday August 12, 2024

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     Updated--Ventura transient, 41-year-old Jameson Paul Johnson, was sentenced Monday to 45-years-to-life in prison plus 17 additional years after a jury convicted him of the extensive sexual abuse of a little girl that lasted four years.

     Prosecutors say that Johnson met the victim in 2005 when she was 10 years old and both were transients living in Ventura.

     They say when the girl was 11-years-old Johnson began to sexually abuse her and that abuse, including rape, continued until she was 15.

     Prosecutors say it stopped only after Johnson was arrested for making criminal threats against her and her mother.

     However the sex abuse allegations did not come to light until 2016 after Johnson sent the victim threatening letters from prison.

     A jury found Johnson guilty of 13 felony counts including six of forcible lewd acts upon a child, six of aggravated sexual assault of a child, and one count of forcible rape.

     And the jury and judge also found true more than 100 special allegations against Johnson who tried to get a new trial trying, but failing to show juror misconduct.

     In addition to the lifetime in prison, Johnson must register as a sex offender.