Man pleads guilty in Main Line sex case
WESTCHESTER >> A Willistown man who engineered a sexual triangle involving himself, a teenage girl, and a blue collar worker who convinced the girl he was a teenager like her, pleaded guilty to human trafficking charges in Common Pleas Court.
The plea, for which defendant Lawrence “Larry” Jamieson Jr. was sentenced to 15 to 40 years in state prison, is believed to be the first of its kind in Chester County. The charge of trafficking in minors, a firstdegree felony, occurs when someone recruits or entices a juvenile who is subjected to sexual servitude.
Jamieson, 59, is already serving a sentence of 100 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to similar charges involving not only the sexual triangle involving the teenager, but also a stash of pornography said to be among the largest ever uncovered in the state.
In addition, Jamieson pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, unlawful contact with a minor, patronizing a victim of sexual servitude, corruption of minors, and endangering the welfare of children.
The defendant declined to make any statement to President Judge Jacqueline Carroll Cody before she imposed the sentence that had been negotiated by Deputy District Attorney Megan King of the DA’s Child Abuse Unit, and defense attorney Peter Kratsa of the West Chester law firm of MacElree Harvey, who represents Jamieson.
“Clearly you have chosen to do things that have impacted a awful lot of people, and for many, for the rest of their lives,” Cody told Jamieson, who stood before her dressed in a white Tshirt and green prison pants, looking much thinner than he did at the time of his arrest in 2016. “You can’t take any of that back.”
But Cody urged Jamieson not to waste the rest of his life while he sits in prison. Perhaps, she said, Jamieson could “inspire someone not to harm some other child.”
The sentence that Cody imposed will run concurrently with that handed down in September by U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter.
As she did at the time of that sentence, the victim in the case, whose name is being withheld by the Daily Local News because of the nature of the charges, appeared in court accompanied by her mother, several supporters, and a comfort dog, Melody, this time part of the Chester County Sheriff’s K-9 Unit.
In a written statement to the court, the girl said her life had been destroyed by Jamieson’s conduct, “emotionally, spiritually, physically and practically.
“I never asked for this to happen,” she wrote. “My innocence was taken away and even how I viewed the world. The world is now a scary place for me. Life for me after I’ve been dragged through all of these horrible acts can’t be described.”
Jamieson has been in custody since his arrest in August
2016. A self-employed private contractor, he is a member of a well-known and respected Main Line family. His late father, Larry Jamieson Sr., was a successful insurance agent in Paoli, and once a member of Downingtown Borough Council. He died in 2010. His mother is Kathleen Casey Jamieson, the owner of a wellknown interior design business in Haverford.
Jamieson used a 23-yearold Norristown man he met, John Brown, who worked at a Norristown tire store to lure the girl into a sexual relationship, with Brown convincing her he was a high school student who attended cyberschool, like her. As her “boyfriend,” Brown then engaged her in sexual activity, photographed and videotaped her, and distributed the videos and images back to Jamieson. Her images were also distributed to others over the internet.
At some point, Brown convinced the girl to have sex with Jamieson, which he also recorded. Jamieson then began abusing her on a regular basis.
The crimes were uncovered after the girl’s mother reported the matter to a child abuse tip line. Jones was able to get the girl to divulge what had been happening to her, with whom, and for how long.
Brown, now 27, also entered guilty pleas to similar charges in federal court. He has yet to be sentenced there, and is still on Cody’s trial list for state charges.