A man has pleaded guilty to faking his own death off the coast of Alabama to avoid sex abuse charges. The ruse involved a small boat found in the Gulf of Mexico containing a suicide note.
FILE - Jacob Blair Scott, who is accused of sexually assaulting a minor, cries out while being cross-examined by Assistant District Attorney Justin Lovorn, during his trial in Jackson County Circuit Court in Pascagoula, Miss., on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. On Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, Scott pleaded guilty in federal court to faking his own death off the Alabama coast to try to avoid sexual abuse charges in Mississippi.
MOBILE, Ala. — A military veteran pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to faking his own death off the Alabama coast to try to avoid sexual abuse charges in Mississippi. A federal judge will sentence Scott in November. He was already sentenced to serve 85 years in prison in Mississippi after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a girl and impregnating her when he was 40 and she was 14.
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