Misty Roberts, the former mayor of DeRidder, Louisiana, was found guilty of having sex with her son’s 16-year-old best friend, Upper Michigan’s Source.
Roberts, 43, was convicted on charges of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and indecent behavior with a juvenile, with jurors reaching a verdict after deliberating for less than an hour. The conviction came after the boy testified that he was drunk when the two had sex at a pool party in 2024.
Roberts will have to register as a sex offender and will be sentenced on April 17. A carnal knowledge conviction carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, while indecent behavior has a sentence of up to seven years behind bars, according to the report.
Jill Weaver, the best friend and former sister-in-law of Roberts, told jurors that she overheard the exchange between Roberts and her son on July 20, 2024, while testifying in Beauregard Parish County Court.
“He was saying [Roberts] effed his best friend,” Weaver said.
Weaver said that Roberts was the most drunk she’d ever seen her and had left the party at around 11:00 p.m. local time before being asked to return by her own son at 2:00 a.m., at which point Roberts accused him of taking a video of her allegedly sexually assaulting a teenager.
“Oh great, you called your mom,” Roberts said, according to Weaver, who was recounting the conversation.
The teenagers then showed the two adults their phones to prove they didn’t have videos of the incident, with Weaver later texting her son “lie till you die” and admitting she spoke to Roberts about how to keep the teens from reporting the incident to authorities. The jury was also shown an interview in which Roberts’ son told investigators that he saw his mom having sex with his friend through a crack in the window, as well as her daughter testifying that she saw Roberts and the 16-year-old “on top of each other.”
Roberts resigned as DeRidder’s mayor days before her arrest in 2024.
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