Fort Worth nonprofit leader arrested again over sexual allegations
For the second time in a week, the chairman of a nonprofit mentoring program for at-risk boys had been arrested, this time for allegedly seeking a sexual act from a teen in the program.
Paul Dean Jamison Jr., founder of Developing Boys to Men (DBTM), was arrested Wednesday at a relative’s Fort Worth home on a warrant accusing him of solicitation of a minor.
He accused of asking a 15-year-old boy in the program to perform a sex act on him.
He was being held in the Mansfield jail Thursday with bail set at $25,000.
At the time of his arrest, Jamison, 33, had been free on bond related to his arrest Friday on a warrant for online solicitation of a minor/promotion or possession of child pornography.
In that case, Jamison was accused of asking a separate 15-year-old boy in the program to text him a sexually explicit photograph.
The organization
DBTM works with boys ages 8 to 18 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Its programs include tutoring and college preparation, community service, career planning, decision-making and anger management.
The organization’s motto is “No man is a real man until he is God’s Man.”
DBTM has had contracts with Fort Worth and Eagle Mountain-Saginaw school districts, as well as Clayton Yes!, which provides before and after-school mentoring services for the Fort Worth school district.
Following Jamison’s earlier arrest, both school districts and Clayton Yes! cut all ties with the organization.
The latest allegation
Police were called by the 15-year-old’s mother on Oct. 1, according to an arrest warrant affidavit written by crimes against children Detective A. Heise.
The mother told police she had allowed her son to use her boyfriend’s cellphone during a camping trip with DBTM because the teen had lost his own.
The mother said when she later took back the phone, she discovered several inappropriate text messages on it.
U said I am the adult and u are the kid. U would do what I say. This is what u said.
Text message allegedly sent to teen by Paul Jamison Jr.
Those text messages, which police would later determined had been sent from Jamison’s phone, included conversing with the teen about what sexual activity he had done with girls, the affidavits states.
The teen is then told he has to do a punishment — performing oral sex on the suspect, the affidavit states.
“The victim tells the suspect that he does not want to do that and that he does not feel like that is a fair punishment,” Heise wrote in the affidavit. “The suspect tells the victim multiple times that ‘we r done’ and ‘we r through’ when the victim refuses to do the punishment.”
The affidavit alleges that the suspect also texted the teen: “U said I am the adult and u are the kid. U would do what I say. This is what u said.” and “U the one who brought this on urself.”
The latest teen’s account
The victim said that Paul called it punishment because he didn’t do what he asked him to do.
Detective A. Heise via arrest warrant affidavit
On Oct. 15, the teen told a forensic interviewer that the text messages were from a man named Paul who used to pick him up after school and mentor him.
The teen said Paul would often say inappropriate and sexual things to him and had asked him to do “inappropriate and nasty stuff for him,” the affidavit states.
“The victim said that Paul called it punishment because he didn’t do what he asked him to do,” Heise wrote. “The victim said that he didn’t speak to Paul after that.”
When shown a photo line-up, the teen picked Jamison’s photograph out as the man he knew as Paul.
In an interview the next day with investigators, Jamison was shown photographs of the text messages. He admitted sending them to the teen and asking the boy for oral sex, the affidavit states.
Deanna Boyd: 817-390-7655, @deannaboyd
This story was originally published October 22, 2015 at 11:17 AM with the headline "Fort Worth nonprofit leader arrested again over sexual allegations."