JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A jury has sentenced a 50-year-old Jacksonville man to indefinite confinement at the Florida Civil Commitment Center in Arcadia, Florida.

Edward Cummings, who spent the past six years at the sexual predator facility, learned Wednesday he will be there for an indefinite period of time.

Cummings was convicted in 1984 of committed a lewd act in the presence of a child. He was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison and three years of probation.

In 1989, Cummings was once again found guilty of a sex crime, this time lewd, lascivious or indecent act up on a minor child. This time Cummings touched a five- and an eight-year-old girl inappropriately while they climbed a fence. For that crime, Cummings received a sentence of seven years in prison.

Cummings was once convicted for a lewd, lascivious or indecent act upon a child in 1999. Cummings was sentenced to one year in jail and two years of sex offender probation for inappropriately touching a seven-year-old girl.

In 2011, Cummings violated his probation and failed to register as a sex offender numerous times.

A jury decided Wednesday afternoon to send Cummings back to the confinement facility after a civil trial.

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