ST. LOUIS, MO (April 8, 2025) — St. Louis man Jeffrey Jones, 57, a registered sex offender, was sentenced on Tuesday to three consecutive life terms in prison after pleading guilty to new child sex crimes committed at his home in the Dutchtown Neighborhood.

The charges stem from crimes that occurred between October 15, 2023, and January 1, 2024. Jones admitted to committing sexual acts on the boys, who were 8 and 9 years old, and trying to get one of the boys to perform a sexual act on him.

Jones pleaded guilty to first-degree statutory sodomy, first-degree attempted statutory sodomy, and two counts of first-degree child molestation. Given Jones’s prior convictions for child sex crimes, he was found to be a persistent sexual offender and was accordingly sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. He will never have the opportunity again to be alone with a child.

Jones previously spent 15 years in jail for multiple counts of first-degree statutory rape, first-degree statutory sodomy, first-degree child molestation, and sexual misconduct.

Assistant Circuit Attorney Sherry Wolk prosecuted the case.

“This child predator has shown a pattern of exploiting children, and we will not allow him to harm anyone else. The relentless efforts of our prosecutors have ensured that he will never again be able to prey on innocent lives,” said St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore.



Jones’s case number is 2422-CR00732-01.