NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY)-- A man was sentenced 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to committing multiple sex crimes between 2019 and 2020 against a Norfolk child who was less than 10 years old.

35-year-old Jamal D'Angelo Jackson met the victim's family in Maryland in 2013. Over time, he became a close family friend and lived with the family on and off through July 2020. In October 2020, the victim reported Jackson's abuse in a forensic interview with police. Jackson was later arrested in Maryland for charges he had pending there. He was extradited to Norfolk in January of 2022.

He was charged with one count of aggravated sexual battery of a child, two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child, and one count of sodomy of a child. In December 2022, direct indictments from a grand j

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