New Orleans jail inmates line up during a mock evacuation drill June 15, 2023. (Nigell Moses/Verite)
NEW ORLEANS – The mother of a child sex trafficking survivor who has pressed authorities for years to bring her alleged pimp to justice learned from a reporter Thursday that he was mistakenly released from jail and was out for months before authorities were aware.
David A. Jones, 32, was released from the Orleans Justice Center in December after a mixup involving his bond paperwork, The Times-Picayune first reported. A judge had ordered Jones held without bond in May 2024 after he violated conditions of his release for an arrest separate from his charges for child sex trafficking and kidnapping in 2018…