Law & Crime reports….
A Louisiana judge who resigned from his post in September after being convicted for molesting teenage girls who were friends with his daughters has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars. Now-former St. John the Baptist Parish Judge Jeff Perilloux, 53, was sentenced on Monday for molesting girls who were 14, 15, and 17 years old at the time. Eligibility for a pardon looks like an unlikely opportunity for the judge in this case
Perilloux maintained that he was innocent, but a jury of his peers convicted him for felony indecent behavior with juveniles. The disgraced jurist was convicted on three felony counts. Perilloux was also found guilty by ad hoc Judge Dennis Waldron of a count of sexual battery, a misdemeanor.
Each of the victims described the creepy crimes in detail at trial, The New Orleans Advocate reported.
One victim, now 20, testified that, in 2017, Perilloux—while in his underwear—touched the “side of [her] boob” at his home and applied vapor rub to her chest when she wasn’t feeling well. She said that Perilloux did this for an extended period of time.
“It wasn’t like a few rubs and done,” the woman said, adding that she thought of Perilloux “like a second dad.” This was what let to the sexual battery charge and conviction. The victim testified that Perilloux’s daughter was not far away at the time of the crime. She also testified that Perilloux molested a friend during a trip to Florida by touching her under her bathing suit below the belt.
According to the Advocate, a third victim described Perilloux rubbing tanning lotion “all over” her when she was 14. The victim said this also happened in 2017.
