{"id":84626,"date":"2025-12-16T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/84626\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:09:09","slug":"man-convicted-of-sexual-assault-may-have-other-victims-jacksonville-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/84626\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of sexual assault may have other victims, Jacksonville police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f9c76cd3134f6dbc70e9bab2b6af6269.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said a man who is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence for sexual assault may have other victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hugh Perry, 55, <a href=\"https:\/\/sao4th.com\/news\/2025\/duval-county-jury-finds-hugh-perry-guilty-of-sexual-battery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:was convicted in September;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">was convicted in September<\/a> in connection with a sexual assault that happened in February 2022 in Jacksonville Beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim reported the assault after a night out in Jacksonville Beach, during which she woke up unsure of how she got home. A forensic analysis confirmed that Perry had assaulted her, JSO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Perry had a history of similar accusations, JSO said. In 2013, he was accused of a comparable crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While on release before his trial for the 2022 assault, Perry was suspected in 2023 of drugging another woman\u2019s drink and stealing her belongings, JSO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JSO released Perry\u2019s mugshots so the public can see how he looked at different points in time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Any potential victims are asked to contact JSO\u2019s Special Assault Unit detectives directly at 904-630-2168.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said a man who is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence for sexual assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[761,46600,116,2130,118,117,1872,1311],"class_list":["post-84626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-free-action-news-jax","tag-hugh-perry","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-beach","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jso","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}