Former Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office employee arrested for alleged child molestation
LAFOURCHE PARISH, La. (WGNO) — A former Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office employee was arrested for alleged child molestation on Tuesday, June 3.
According to the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office, 38-year-old Chad White of Houma was arrested by the TPSO for allegedly showing nude images of a woman to other people. He was booked into the Terrebonne Parish Criminal Justice Complex and released the following day after posting $50,000 bail.
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According to LPSO, during the investigation, TPSO detectives learned of a possible molestation that had occurred in Lafourche Parish. LPSO officials said that they found that White allegedly molested a child under the age of 13 over a decade ago.
White was arrested and booked into the Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex in Thibodaux on one count of molestation of a juvenile. Bail is set at $250,000.Atlantic seaweed blob breaks record – and it's about to get even bigger
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Urban renewal projects cleared low and middle-income housing in cities nationwide, including Indianapolis, beginning in the 1950s, often targeting neighborhoods where Black residents built their own communities because discriminatory practices of the era kept them from buying or building homes elsewhere. In Elkhart, a manufacturing hub 160 miles north, Benham West became one of the city's most underdeveloped and impoverished neighborhoods after years of disinvestment. Some see the dismantling of Benham West as part of the city's ugly history with racism. The neighborhood and its surrounding areas were also plagued with troubling policing practices by a group of rogue officers known as the Wolverines, who systematically targeted Black citizens for harassment and false arrests. "Benham West and what occurred in Benham West was a failure on multiple levels," said Rod Roberson, who grew up near the neighborhood and was elected the city's first Black mayor in 2019. 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