Investigators arrest man on child sex charges
Russell County investigators have arrested a man on January 27th, 2022 on two child sex charges.
John Gage Jacobs was charged with indecent exposure and enticing a child for immoral purposes. According to Alabama Law Section 13A-6-69, it shall be unlawful for any person with lascivious intent to entice, allure, persuade or invite, or attempt to entice, allure, persuade or invite, any child under 16 years of age to enter any vehicle, room, house, office, or other place for the purpose of proposing to such child the performance of an act of sexual intercourse or an act which constitutes the offense of sodomy or for the purpose of proposing the fondling or feeling of the sexual or genital parts of such child or the breast of such child, or for the purpose of committing an aggravated assault on such child, or for the purpose of proposing that such child fondle or feel the sexual or genital part of such person. The violation of this section is a Class C felony, according to the law.
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