32-Year-Old Pearl Man Sentenced to Twenty-Five Years for Sexual Battery of a Child

Rankin County - Madison and Rankin Counties' District Attorney Bubba Bramlett announced that Lavarias Sherod Chaffee, 32, of Pearl, Mississippi, pled guilty to sexual battery of a child under the age of fourteen. 

Chaffee was sentenced to serve thirty (30) years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for sexual battery of a minor. Chafee will serve twenty-five years in prison and, upon release, will have five years of supervised probation, must register as a sex offender, will have no contact with the victim, and will have no unsupervised contact with any child under the age of eighteen. 

On November 15, 2023, the Pearl Police Department received a complaint from the victim’s parents. They reported their child was communicating with a male in his 30s on social media. During the investigation, the Mississippi Children's Advocacy Center interviewed the child and discovered that the defendant drove to the child's neighborhood in a work truck. Chaffee had the minor come out to meet him and had the child perform sexual acts on him in the truck. The victim and other juveniles disclosed that Chaffee requested inappropriate images from them. Chaffee had a multicount Indictment for the sexual acts involving the victim and the inappropriate images. 

"Online predators must be stopped,” stated District Attorney Bramlett. “Our office does not tolerate children being violated by adults, and we will continue to fight to bring all child predators to justice. We appreciate the Pearl Police Department for their diligent work in protecting our children from these monster pedophiles." 

Defendant: 

Name: Lavarias Sherod Chaffee 

Date of Birth: 01/16/1992 

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