LOUISIANA
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A former priest living in Duson has been accussed of having inappropriate sexual contact with an 8-year-old boy between 1986 and 1989 when he was a priest at St. Henry Catholic Church in Lake Charles. Yesterday, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office and Louisiana State Police arrested Mark A. Broussard, 56, of 132 Canary Lane in Duson.
He’s in the Calcasieu Correctional Center and is being charged with 2 counts of aggravated battery and 52 counts of sexual battery. “Documents were located in the priest’s personnel file where the priest indicated sexual contact with at least four other male children. These incidents were not reported to law enforcement,” said Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Kim Myers.
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s Office have been working together to investigate the accusations. On December 22, 2011 the Sheriff’s Office received a letter from a local law firm on behalf of the Diocese of Lake Charles stating they had received a letter from the victim, who is now 34 years of age, disclosing the priest had allegedly molested him. “The priest left St. Henry Catholic Church in 1992 and was relocated to St. Eugene Catholic Church in Grand Chenier, where he resigned from the priesthood in 1994,” Myers said.
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