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Ex-deputy wants trial to be separate from wife's in Livingston Parish sex abuse case
Editor's note: This story includes descriptions of sexual abuse of children.
Lawyers for a former Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy asked a judge this week to try him separately from his ex-school teacher wife, not long after the court unsealed investigative documents describing in graphic detail some of the child sex abuse crimes the couple face.
Dennis and Cynthia Perkins are named in a long list of horrific charges stemming from an investigation spanning at least five years that involves two adult and two child victims, as well as a dog.
Lawyers for Dennis Perkins this week asked a judge to see him charged separately from his wife, saying he would be “unduly prejudiced” by his wife’s testimony. The arguments center on a judge’s decision to allow certain evidence to be presented against only his wife, while other evidence can only be presented against Dennis Perkins.
The couple was jointly indicted, meaning their criminal cases will proceed together through court.
Cynthia Perkins filed for divorce not long after the couple was charged, claiming her husband of a little over a year had made “sufficient threats that render her fearful of (him).”
The case the Attorney General's Office is building against the former Livingston Parish Sheriff's SWAT leader and his wife, a former English teacher Westside Junior High School in Walker, includes photos and other evidence found on the ex-deputy's computer, according to recently unsealed documents.
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