Hawthorne 19-Year Old Convicted of Using 2-Way Communication Device to Facilitate a Felony
Update | Mar 4, 2026: Added text from police report with cuts regarding details from the videos and statements made by the minor victim towards Bouie.
A Hawthorne man was convicted of using a two way communication device to facilitate a felony on Tuesday and sentenced to three years of probation.
Jamal Alie Bouie, 19, was initially charged with four counts of directing or promoting a sexual performance from a child, four counts of lewd and lascivious battery against a victim under 16 and four counts of possessing child sexual abuse material, but all were dropped in January 2025.
Bouie will be required to undertake a psychosexual evaluation and not contact the victim.
Police Report:
On May 2, 2024, while assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) as the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) investigator, I was requested by SGT Myers to contact Williston Police Department's Detective Confessore in reference to this case.
I made contact with Detective Confessore from the Williston Police Department via a phone call. He explained that he was investigating a stolen vehicle. The investigation was documented under Williston Police Department case report number 2400103. During the investigation, he identified the DEFENDANT, Jamal Alie Bouie, and the Juvenile Victim, further referred to as JV, as being linked to the vehicle. The DEFENDANT was arrested and booked into the Alachua County Jail on April 29, 2024. Detective Confessore obtained a warrant to collect the phones and another warrant to have them digitally processed. The Alachua County Sheriffs Office assisted with the execution and digital processing the devices for the original search warrant for Detective Confessore. The two devices, one being a black Apple iPhone and the other a black Samsung (Android device), were in the DEFENDANT's property at the Alachua County Jail.
Once he collected the devices, Detective Confessore attempted to put them into airplane mode. The Android device gave him some difficulty. He swiped on the device and located a video on the device that contained a juvenile engaged in a sex act. Detective Confessore advised that the juvenile appeared to be the JV. Due to both the DEFENDANT and the JV residing and living in Alachua County, Detective Confessore reported his findings to SGT Myers.
Detective Confessore advised that he made contact with the JV. When he told her that he had reviewed the DEFENDANT's phones, she told him that everything was "consensual" between them (her and the DEFENDANT). Detective Confessore advised that he did not press the statement and asked questions pertaining to his investigation.
On May 7, 2024, the Honorable Judge [David] Kreider granted the warrants for the phone. Detective Qualmann provided me with extractions of the two devices.
1– black iPhone – The device, a black Apple iPhone, contained messages between the JV and the DEFENDANT. She refers to the DEFENDANT by name during the conversation. The tone of the conversation indicates that they were in a relationship... It was clear that the two were in argument over their relationship.
I also located 105 files (78 images and 27 videos) of the DEFENDANT and JV on the phone. One image [REDACTED] showed the JV and DEFENDANT posing together for 15 "selfie" photos and 3 images of the JV only. The date 1 1/21/23 was in the middle of the screen with words "(star symbol) my luh shii" at the bottom. The image was a screen capture of the background of the phone. One of the smaller photos showed the DEFENDANT standing behind the JV. She was only wearing a pair of black underwear. The DEFENDANT has his arms wrapped a round the victim. One hand is grab bing the JV's breast, while the other is touching the on the vaginal area over the underwear. The photo was also indicated to have been set as the device's background...
The 78 images are a mixture of photos. Some are thumbnails of the videos found on the phone. Others were tagged to show the relationship between the JV and the DEFENDANT. Approximately half of the images (35-40) show the JV in various states of nudity or engaged in sexual activities with the DEFENDANT.
2- black Samsung cellular telephone - The device, black Samsung cellular telephone, contained a conversation between the JV and the DEFENDANT. I also located 115 files (88 images, 27 videos) of the DEFENDANT and the JV. Of the 27 videos, 8 videos clearly depicted sexual acts between the JV and the DEFENDANT.
The 88 images are a mixture of photos of the JV and the DEFENDANT. Approximately three quarters of the images (65-70) show the JV in various states of nudity or engaged in sexual activities with the DEFENDANT.
On September 18, 2024, I made contact with the DEFENDANT at the Levy County Jail. I read him Miranda from my agency issued text. Post Miranda, the DEFENDANT advised that he understood his rights. I collected basic contact information from the DEFENDANT. While speaking with the DEFENDANT, he acknowledged the he was friends with the JV, but changed it later saying they were in a relationship. The DEFENDANT in formed me that he met the JV on lnstagram in September 2023. That first night, the DEFENDANT and the JV had sex. At that time, he believed her to 18 years old. He admitted he learned that JV was only 14 later in the relationship, but "did not want to leave and make her feel bad." He believed this to be in January of 2024. The DEFENDANT admitted to having consensual (penial/vaginal penetration) with the JV multiple times from September of 2023 until April 2024. The DEFENDANT also admitted that both he and the JV had made video recordings the two engaging in sexual acts as well as sending those videos to one another. He advised that those videos were only for him and her. He denied sending the videos to anyone else. The DEFENDANT advised that the JV would come to his house (listed address) and that is where the sex acts occurred.
A few months after this article was published, one of Bouie's family members emailed GnvInfo saying most of his charges were dropped because the victim lied about her age. However, this hasn't been independently verified. Florida statutes of Lewd or lascivious offenses state "The perpetrator’s ignorance of the victim’s age, the victim’s misrepresentation of his or her age, or the perpetrator’s bona fide belief of the victim’s age cannot be raised as a defense in a prosecution under this section."
"The only reason the other charge wasn’t dropped was because her mother didn’t come talk to the state and she didn’t want to get in trouble," said the family member.
Bouie is also serving probation for carrying an unlicensed firearm in Alachua County and grand theft out of Levy County. He is currently scheduled to complete his probation on April 28, 2028.
