[StBernard] Chalmette man booked with indecent behavior with child cousins

[Westley Annis]

Chalmette man booked with indecent behavior with child cousins

A Chalmette man was booked Friday with three counts of indecent behavior and
one count of sexual battery for inappropriately touching four of his
pre-teen male cousins, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said.

Chief Deputy Sheriff James Pohlmann said the 18-year-old suspect, whose name
the Sheriff's Office would not release to protect the identity of the
victims, was taken into custody after 1:30 a.m. when the mother of two of
the boys called the Sheriff's Office after learning of the incidents that
also involved nephews of the mother who called.

Share The boys are 12, 11, 10 and 8 years old, the Sheriff's Office said.

Each of the boys was questioned separately by deputies and said their older
cousin had touched them inappropriately, some on more than one occasion,
Poholmann said.

The suspect, who lives near the other two families in Chalmette, was also
booked on an arrest warrant from April 29 charging him with a disturbance.
He is being held in St. Bernard Parish Prison and no bond has been set.