LOUISIANA
The Advertiser
A Duson man who had left the priesthood almost two decades ago was arrested Thursday at his home on more than 50 counts of sexual battery from his tenure as a priest in Lake Charles.
Mark A. Broussard, 56, 132 Canary Lane, Duson, was arrested by CPSO detectives, with assistance from Louisiana State Police, yesterday at his home and booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center. He is being charged with 2 counts of aggravated battery and 52 counts of sexual battery.
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s Office have been working together to investigate accusations that a former priest had inappropriate sexual contact with an 8 year old victim between approximately 1986 and 1989.
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