Misty Roberts, 43, faces sentences of up to 10 and seven years in prison after July 2024 sexual assault at pool party
The former mayor of a Louisiana city has been convicted of raping a 16-year-old boy during a party at her house while she was still in office.
Misty Roberts, 43, faces sentences of up to 10 and seven years in prison after a jury in the municipality of DeRidder on Tuesday found her guilty of two felonies: carnal knowledge of a juvenile – or statutory rape – as well as indecent behavior with a minor.
In October, in an unrelated case, her 40-year-old brother, Brandon Lee Roberts, pleaded guilty to raping two people: an underage girl and a young woman. He subsequently received a 42-year prison sentence.
People who want to do stuff forbidden to the public look for positions of power.
Some of this stuff is good like taxing rich people and requiring car companies to put seat belts in vehicles.
A lot of these ambitions are bad: pedophilia, cruelty, torture, corruption, selling off public assets, building strip malls, etc.
In this case she was drunk, and clearly regretted what she did so much she turned herself in even though she could get away with it if she just didn’t.
So I don’t believe she looked for a position of power in order to be able to do it.
We need more good people looking for positions of power to squeeze them out, I guess?