30-Year Sentence for Former Student Who Sexually Assaulted Girls on Campus

A former Bay High School student was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday for sexually
assaulting two 14-year-old girls in the locker room, State Attorney Larry Basford announced.
Jaques Cortez Lee, 22, was 19 and a senior at the time of the offenses. 

He was found guilty in
May of Sexual Battery of one of the victims and Lewd and Lascivious Battery on the other for
the Nov. 8, 2022 attack.

Circuit Court Judge Shonna Young Gay sentenced the defendant to 30 years for the Sexual
Battery and 15 years on Lewd and Lascivious Battery, and that the sentences run concurrently, or
at the same time. Judge Gay also designated the defendant as a Sexual Predator.
Prosecutor Morgan McAfee called both victims as witnesses to testify about the Nov. 8, 2022
assaults.

One of the victims was going to meet with the defendant and a friend went with her for safety.
The evidence showed that while in the locker room the defendant sexually assaulted both girls.
Both victims reported it and underwent forensic interviews at the Gulf Coast Children’s
Advocacy Center.

Basford thanked the Gulf Coast Children’s Advocacy Center for its work and the Bay County
Sheriff’s Office for its thorough investigation that helped bring the case to a successful
conclusion.