sex crime

PINEVILLE, La. (AP) — Pineville police have arrested a man wanted on suspicion of 31 sex crimes involving juveniles. The Town Talk reports 38-year-old Lavelle Davis was arrested Monday by Pineville Police Department officers, with assistance from the U...

BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — Bossier City police have arrested a 32-year-old Bossier City man on charges of aggravated rape in connection with the alleged molestation of a 1-year-old boy. The Times reports Zachary Keith Jordan was arrested Sunday following an investigation by detectives...

COVINGTON, La. (AP) — A Slidell minister, convicted of having a three-month sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl, has been sentenced to three years in prison. Forty-four-year-old Keith James Boyd, pastor of the Open Door Apostolic Church, was found guilty in March of carnal knowledge and indecent behavior with a juvenile...

Police say William Simon acted inappropriately on the internet with who he thought was a 13-year-old girl.

A Tioga preacher and psychiatric hospital social worker charged with 473 counts of sex crimes against a young female relative has pleaded guilty to four.

A former counselor at Ascension Episcopal School was sentenced to 30 years in prison for trying to get a student to engage in sex.

A former Acadiana High School teacher will get a minimum of 10 years when he's sentenced in August for sex crimes.

A former Pineville church youth minister has been indicted on 13 charges of sex crimes with juveniles, including two charges of aggravated rape of victims younger than 13 years.

The New Orleans Police Department has received a $364,000 grant to be used for training 40 officers in units that handle sex crimes, child abuse and domestic violence.