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"Eye Of The Tiger"
High-ranking SGA official arrested on campus
Published: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Southern University of-ficials remain upset at how law enforcement officials handled the arrest of a high-ranking Student Government Association official Thursday.
SGA Chief Justice Christopher Richardson, a senior political science major from Thibodaux, was arrested on charges of aggravated rape and oral sexual battery of a 15-year-old female.
?What upsets me is that they paraded him around the union. As the dean of students, it?s my job to protect everyone on this campus,? said Robert Bennett, dean of students. ?They should have contacted me and I would have talked to Christopher myself. He?s a good kid. I?ve known him since he was in school. All they had to do was speak to me and I would have brought him in.?
According to an initial Baton Rouge Police Department report obtained by the DIGEST and other media reports, the incident allegedly involving the 23-year-old Richardson took place Aug. 23 and was reported the next day, culminating with the alleged victim sustaining minor injury and visiting a local hospital. The Juvenile Sex Crimes Division was also notified.
His bail was set at $75,000 at the time of the arrest, but Richardson?s name did not show up on the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison?s Internet listing of inmates.
read more here http://www.southerndigest.com/1.756324
Published: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Southern University of-ficials remain upset at how law enforcement officials handled the arrest of a high-ranking Student Government Association official Thursday.
SGA Chief Justice Christopher Richardson, a senior political science major from Thibodaux, was arrested on charges of aggravated rape and oral sexual battery of a 15-year-old female.
?What upsets me is that they paraded him around the union. As the dean of students, it?s my job to protect everyone on this campus,? said Robert Bennett, dean of students. ?They should have contacted me and I would have talked to Christopher myself. He?s a good kid. I?ve known him since he was in school. All they had to do was speak to me and I would have brought him in.?
According to an initial Baton Rouge Police Department report obtained by the DIGEST and other media reports, the incident allegedly involving the 23-year-old Richardson took place Aug. 23 and was reported the next day, culminating with the alleged victim sustaining minor injury and visiting a local hospital. The Juvenile Sex Crimes Division was also notified.
His bail was set at $75,000 at the time of the arrest, but Richardson?s name did not show up on the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison?s Internet listing of inmates.
read more here http://www.southerndigest.com/1.756324