Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Noah Fulton Jackson Charged with Sexually Assaulting 2 Teens


A registered sex offender remains in Harrison County Jail on charges of sexually assaulting two local teenagers.

Noah Fulton Jackson, 21, of 360 Marion County Road 3103, Jefferson, was arrested at approximately 9:45 p.m. Sunday by the Marshall Police Department, said Detective Sonya L. Johnson, public information officer.

Jackson appeared Monday before Precinct 4, Place 2 Justice of the Peace Nancy George, who set his bail at $50,000, said a spokesperson for the bonds division of the sheriff's office.

District Attorney Joe Black said the girls, 15 and 17 years of age, are residents of East Texas Open Door.

He said the matter came to the attention of police when a worker at the shelter for troubled female youth, who also works part-time at Wal-Mart Super Center, "ran into the girls" at the store.

"The story now is that they voluntarily engaged in sex in the woods behind Wal-Mart," Black added.

The 17-year-old said immediately that she had sex with Jackson, but the 15-year-old originally said she had been sexually assaulted.

"The little girl lied about her age," Black said Monday afternoon. "She told him she was 19 and she now says the sex was consensual."

The DA said the girl told the shelter worker she had been raped as a reason for not being at East Texas Open Door.

Law dictates, however, that a 15-year-old may not give consent for sex.

"The fact is that he is a sex offender," Black said, "and I'm not going to release him. I'll present the case to the grand jury and let them decide."

Texas Department of Public Safety's sex offender list indicates Jackson first registered with Texas Youth Commission in January 2005. He last registered with Marion County Sheriff's Office in December 2008.

It shows Jackson's place of employment as Sonic Drive-in in Atlanta.

The disposition date of the earlier crimes against Jackson was April 16, 2001, and lists his victims as a 10-year-old female and a 15-year-old female. Jackson would have been 14 years old in 2001.

The DPS list indicates Jackson as having served three years and six months and being placed on "juvenile probation" for two counts of indecency with a child, sexual contact.

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