New Details in Youth Director Sexual Battery Case

Pensacola, FL (Newsradio 92.3) -- An arrest report reveals new details about a Pensacola youth director accused of sexually battering a teenage girl enrolled in his program. 57-year-old Rodney Jones is accused of assaulting the victim while she was completing probation requirements at his H-O-O-P-S program. The girl told police Jones initially made inappropriate comments, then the encounters escalated to sexual intercourse in his vehicles about five times over a year. She says Jones paid her about two-thousand dollars and bought her a cell phone. The victim told police she was afraid to stop because Jones could violate her probation. After she reported the allegations to police, Jones allegedly contacted her asking what she told law enforcement. Jones has been released on $250,000 bond. The Escambia Children's Trust has suspended funding for his program.