Former Louisiana deputy gets 100-year prison sentence for child sex crimes

A former Louisiana deputy accepted a 100-year jail sentence in a plea deal for a slew of horrific little one intercourse crimes — together with ejaculating on cupcakes that his spouse fed to her junior highschool college students.

Dennis Perkins, previously with the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Workplace, pleaded responsible on Tuesday to rape, two counts of sexual battery of a kid underneath the 13, video voyeurism, and two counts of kid pornography.  

He was additionally charged with one depend of mingling dangerous substances after his spouse, a instructor, put his semen into cupcakes that she gave to college students at Livingston’s Westside Junior Excessive College.

By pleading responsible, Perkins prevented a prolonged trial that may have pressured younger victims to testify and relive the traumatizing crimes, native newspaper The Advocate reported.

He and his spouse, Cynthia Perkins, had been indicted on 150 intercourse crime-related fees following their arrest in 2019.

She pleaded responsible to second-degree rape, manufacturing of kid pornography and conspiracy of mingling dangerous substances in February 2022. As a part of her plea deal, 68 of the 72 fees in opposition to her had been dropped and she or he agreed to testify in opposition to Dennis had his trial moved ahead.

She was sentenced to 41 years in jail.

She filed for divorce from her husband following their arrests and alleged that he had manipulated her into committing the crimes. She resigned from Westside Junior Excessive College the day after her arrest.

In keeping with The Advocate, Dennis Perkins’ trial was scheduled to start out on Monday, the place he would face 78 fees. 

His trial was delayed final yr after the state dumped as many as 800,000 digital information it obtained and his lawyer requested further time to overview them, the paper reported.

Perkins, 47, will spend the remainder of his life in jail, per his plea deal.

“He not solely waived any proper to attraction, probation, or parole and any try to keep away from conviction, however Mr. Perkins additionally spared the victims from reliving his horrific crimes throughout trial,” stated Lawyer Common Jeff Landry, whose workplace prosecuted the case, advised The Advocate.

Perkins apologized to his victims and to the group he used to serve in courtroom.

“I wish to say I’m sorry. … I spent greater than three years dwelling in a field. It’s not about me. I simply wish to make the assertion: Jesus Christ has forgiven me. I’m grateful for that. I hope and pray that anyone that this has affected would additionally discover forgiveness and therapeutic via Jesus Christ,” he stated.

Previous to Perkins talking, one girl supplied a sufferer assertion to the courtroom. condemning Perkins’ “sick, deplorable actions.”

“You’ll now not have management over your victims anymore,” she stated, in keeping with The Advocate. “I’m so grateful I don’t have to sit down on this courtroom with you or your lawyer once more. Have a pleasant life in jail.”

Perkins, who had been with the Sheriff’s workplace since 2002, had been the  commander of the company’s SWAT unit, the newspaper reported.

Perkins and his spouse had been busted in 2019 after authorities obtained a tip on the Nationwide Middle for Lacking and Exploited Youngsters. Investigators later uncovered a photograph of them nude with a minor, police stated.

A lawsuit filed in opposition to Dennis Perkins and the Livingston Parish College System claims that Cynthia Perkins filmed her husband supplying semen for the cupcakes that had been later fed to youngsters at Westside Junior Excessive College.

Depend 15 within the unique indictment in opposition to the couple alleges the semen was blended into each the desserts and vitality drinks earlier than it was served to victims.