Jeffrey Bernard May Case

February 29th, 2016, Jeffrey Bernard May was charged with four counts of sexual assault on a victim below the age of 12 and two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior. For case 2016 CF 1120 A (8) May was discharged but two other sexual assault cases still follow. The victim and in the case versus May was Erica England, May’s stepdaughter, who claimed to be sexually assaulted by May at the age of eleven. May married Erica’s mother, Lynn May, in October of 2000 and filed for divorce in 2015. The state attempted to argue that Erica and Lynn’s testimony were sufficient evidence to prove the charges against May of undocumented crimes that had occurred thirteen years before. The State (backed up) it’s attempt of proof) by proclaiming Erica had no

The defense attourney asked her about her trust and bond with Erica, which Lynn answered she was close and that Erica trusted her. The Defense attourney then impeached her statement and the charges against Jeffrey May. “In those twelve years Erica never confided in you? Did you ever bath your children when they were little? You never noticed lacerations?”(Defence attorney) She answered that she bathed her children and never saw lacerations. This was an attempt by the defence to fraud Lynn May’s intentions. The defense questioned her on the bedroom situation during the May’s marriage. Lynn stated that he would leave the bed at night and she would hear the television on in the other room. “You slept with him, you never got up to see where he was or to check on Erica?” Lynn May repeated she thought he had been watching television but was absent during the times the sex crimes accured. The defense proved that during the time the sex crimes happened Lynn May was receiving financiel support from Jeffrey May. “The divorce proceedings between Lynn and Jeffrey May went on for a while, you were still on his card?”