Race Day Live (Baldwin County, FL) – Deputies from Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office have charged a Florida man with multiple counts of rape, sodomy, and willful abuse / torture of a kid. This occurred after the accused victim came forward several months after deputies claimed the abuse began.
Gavin Orlando Jernigan, 22, of Cantonment, FL, was arrested on warrants in Escambia County last week. He was booked into Baldwin County Jail over the weekend.
Jernigan made his first court appearance after being arrested on Monday, January 13, 2025. Before establishing bond, Judge Bill Scully listened to the prosecution’s case details. They presented a continuous abuse scenario in which the claimed victim, who was known to Jernigan, was brutally raped and sexually assaulted beginning in June 2024.
“There’s several allegations and we expect there to be a lot of…some additional charges to come out of Grand Jury as far as counts and things but it goes from everything from incapacitation, when our adult victim was incapacitated through forcible compulsion,” explained Capt. Daniel Steelman with the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.
According to authorities, the alleged rapes took place inside the victim’s home in an outlying area of the county. Prosecutors claimed Jernigan even used the victim’s child as leverage against her.
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“Shaking the child to demonstrate that he was willing to harm the child and that’s where our willful torture and abuse charges come from, all to compel her to have sexual relations with him,” Steelman said.
The total bond for Gavin Jernigan has been set at $231,000. If he makes the bond, he will remain under GPS house arrest and will be unable to communicate with the mother or child. He has until February 12th, 2025 to obtain a preliminary hearing.
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