Despite help from a local prosecutor, a convicted child molester now charged with trying to take a swing at a female Fayetteville police officer during a scuffle in March didn't get the get out of jail free card he might have been hoping for.

South Georgia Judicial Circuit Chief Superior Court Judge A. Wallace Cato ordered 40-year-old Jeffery David Allen of Old Greenville Road, Fayetteville, to prison for five years for violating the terms of his probation.

South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney Joe Mulholland said he is satisfied with the outcome.

"That's as much as we could have got," Mulholland said Tuesday morning from his Bainbridge office.

Allen served 15 years of his original probated sentence with no prison time. Some reasoned that he could have been ordered to spend his remaining 25 years of probation in prison.

But Mulholland indicated that is not the case.

"He couldn't get the 25 years because you can only revoke for the maximum penalty of the charge you are currently charged with," Mulholland said.

Allen has been on probation since May 1990, when he pleaded guilty to sexually molesting five female students and trying to kiss two others, all under the age of 14, according to the Decatur County, Ga., Clerk's Office. Allen was a teacher at Hutto Middle School in Bainbridge when the assaults occurred.

Allen received 40 years probation and was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for the crimes as part of a negotiated plea deal.

A judge also banned Allen from the circuit during his probation and ordered him not to teach girls under 17, clerk officials said.

Allen had his probation supervision transferred to Fayette County. He violated the terms of his probation in 2003, according to police records. He was convicted once again in 2003 on nine counts of using a telephone to make obscene telephone calls and eight counts of harassing telephone calls.

The charges stem from telephone calls he placed to 13 different women, court records show.

According to Fayette County sheriff's reports, Allen would call some of the 13 victims between 1 and 3 a.m. and ask them sexually intimate questions.

On one call, Allen asked the victim what she was wearing and made a sexually explicit statement.

Scott Ballard, then a defense attorney of Ballard and Ballard Law Firm in Fayetteville represented Allen.

Allen received five years on probation in the Fayette case and served a short stint in jail for the 2003 conviction.

In 2005, Ballard became the district attorney for the Griffin Judicial Circuit. He took office in January.

Allen had another run-in with the law, but this time it involved Fayetteville police officers.

The incident unfolded on March 11 when Allen and a friend, identified as 39-year-old Beverly Jenkins, were coming home from a strip club on March 11, police said.

According to Fayetteville police, a taxi driver picked up Allen and Jenkins at the Crazy Horse Saloon in Forest Park and drove them to McBride Road.

Allen told the cab driver he did not have any money to pay the fare once they arrived at the location, police said. The cab driver drove Allen to an automatic teller machine to withdraw the cash, but Allen could not because there was insufficient funds in the bank account, police said. The cab driver then called the police.

Allen, who appeared to be "visibly intoxicated," grew upset with the cab driver when officers arrived, police said. Allen initially gave a false name to police. Allen later shouted obscenities and tried to fight with the police, forcing them to spray pepper spray in his eyes to get him to comply, police said.

"Due to Allen's strength and level of resistance, it took all three officers on scene to attempt to subdue him," FPD Spokeswoman Lt. Beverly Trainor said.

Allen was charged with obstruction, disorderly conduct and giving a false name to police. He was taken to the Fayette County Jail and later transported to the Decatur County, Ga., Jail to attend the probation revocation hearing.

It was in Decatur County that Allen's probation was revoked June 28 and he was sentenced to serve five years in prison.