Robert Jacob, 46, met his victim online in early 2020 when the boy was 14 years old. Over the course of the next year, Jacob chatted with the victim and eventually the conversations turned sexual.
Retired CHP officer, accused of ‘grooming’ minors, is jailed for allegedly violating release terms in child porn case
Jacob pleaded no contest in January to six felony counts including procuring a child to engage in a lewd act with another adult, sexual penetration of a minor, engaging in a lewd act with a minor, sending lewd material to a minor and communicating with a minor with the intent to commit a sex crime. “The victim should be commended for coming forward to report what Mr. Jacob did,” said District Attorney Carla Rodriguez.Jacob was elected to the Sebastopol City Council in 2012 and became mayor the following year. He founded the Sebastopol medical marijuana dispensary Peace in Medicine in 2007.
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