ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – After a two-day trial, a jury on Tuesday found a former St. Johns County resident guilty as charged of three counts of sexual battery on a person less than 12 years of age.
Immediately following the verdict, George Lightkep, 79, was sentenced to mandatory life in prison for the crimes.
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“The defendant is a serial child rapist pedophile,” State Attorney R.J. Larizza said about the case. “He preyed upon young girls between the ages of 6 and 9 years old. God bless and keep our victims who came forward and provided detailed testimony of the sexual abuse.”
One of the victims said Lightkep abused her in Hastings between 2000 and 2002 when she was a child.
The case was investigated by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.
This sentence will run consecutively to the life sentence that Lightkep is currently serving.
He was convicted in 2021 for two additional counts of sexual battery on a person less than 12 years of age in a separate St. Johns County case.
