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DeRIDDER, Louisiana — Disgraced Louisiana Mayor Misty Roberts was torched by her teenage victim’s mother as she was sentenced to 90 days in jail for having sex with her son’s friend at a drunken party in 2024.
“Danger doesn’t always look like danger. Danger doesn’t always look like a man with candy or a puppy in a van or strangers we tell our kids to beware of,” the mother told Misty at her sentencing hearing Tuesday.
“This predator has hair extensions, high heels, Botox and other augmentations,” she added, choking back tears.
Misty, 43, said she will serve the jail time instead of posting bail to avoid the time behind bars — but she also dodged a huge prison sentence.
Prosecutors asked the judge to give her the max, 17 years, after she was convicted in March of having sex with the woman’s 16-year-old son in July 2024.
“In your statement today I didn’t feel totally comfortable with that. I was not particularly swayed by that,” Judge D. Kent Savoie said. “I was substantially touched by what I heard about how this affected the victims family.”
Savoie also meted out two 5-year suspended sentences and mandated that Roberts must undergo therapy and pass regular drug and alcohol tests.
The then-mayor was throwing a party for her own son’s birthday, where she was flirting with his 16-year-old friend before taking the boy into a room and having sex with him.
And the boy’s mother said his life hasn’t been the same since.
“You thought so much of yourself in that bikini that night you knew exactly what you were doing with his mind. He was 16,” the mom said. “What hurt almost as much as the initial betrayal was the attempt to shift the blame onto a 16-year-old boy from a 42-year-old woman.”
“I don’t know what category of innocence you thought you were in,” she added, also calling Misty out for initially trying to avoid blame and telling her family to “lie till you die” about what happened.
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