Lee Jones

Other witnesses against Mr. Jones told the jury wildly inconsistent and contradictory tales of abuse.

Jarrod Thompson, for example, said at trial that he was molested by Mr. Jones “every weekend� for nearly a decade. Adam Roop told the jury the same, but both also said they were always alone with Mr. Jones. His defense attorney points out the obvious – they can’t both be telling the truth.

When confronted with this at trial, Jarrod changed his story to being molested at least once a month. Adam changed his story, too, also saying it happened only once a month. At another point during the trial, Jarrod changed his story again, this time claiming to be molested by Mr. Jones every other weekend.

But earlier in the trial, Jarod, now 22-years-old, told the jury that he spent every weekend with his friend H.B. Clark, another witness against Lee Jones. The trial transcript shows that when he realized this was a contradiction, he changed that part of his testimony, too.

The contradictions in Jarrod’s testimony don’t end there.

Jarod told the jury that he told his mother of Mr. Jones’ abuse in 1996, but that he didn’t want her to tell anyone and the she continued to allow him to be alone with Mr. Jones. But according to the transcript and police records, Jarod told Mr. Van Meter during the investigation that he only told his mother of the abuse a week before – in 1998.

Jarrod’s father also testified at trial that during the Saturdays Jarrod claimed to have been with Mr. Jones, he was coaching Jarrod in a little league football team in the nearby town of Pratt.

And though both Jarrod and Adam claimed to have spent a lot of time alone with Mr. Jones, at trial, they couldn’t remember some of the most basic details of his various homes.

Jarrod claimed to have been in Lee Jones’ city-owned apartment every weekend for years, but when pressed at trial, he said he didn’t know that Mr. Jones had a roommate – Jarrod’s cousin. Jarrod also didn’t know that during the times he claimed to be alone with Mr. Jones in the city-owned apartment, the apartment had no electricity.

Adam told that jury that Lee Jones molested him in a house on “Conley Hill� with two bedrooms and a full basement. In reality, the house Adam claimed to have been molested in had only one bedroom, and no basement.