ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH -- State Police are investigating a St. John the Baptist Parish judge for the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in two states, according to a report from The New Orleans Advocate.
The teenage girl, a friend of the judge's daughter who was 15 at the time, told Louisiana State Police that Judge Jeff Perilloux slid his fingers inside her bathing suit bottom during a family trip to Destin, Florida.
Two other girls on the trip told investigators that they were there when she emerged crying from the room where the assault allegedly took place and told them what Perilloux had done.
She also claims Perilloux touched her breasts on two separate occasions while in St. John Parish prior to the alleged sexual assault in Destin.
“Judge Perilloux categorically denies that any improper behavior occurred,” Attorney David Courcelle, who is representing the judge, told The New Orleans Advocate. “He’s been blindsided by this. No one from Louisiana State Police has contacted him.”
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