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Friend Testifies as Ex-DeRidder Mayor’s Retrial Probes Alleged Sex With 16-Year-Old

Jurors are reviewing recorded interviews, photos, texts plus testimony about a Plan B delivery.

Overview

  • Roberts’ retrial is underway in Beauregard Parish after a prior mistrial that followed the removal of two judges, and no verdict has been reached.
  • Jill Weaver told jurors she heard Roberts’ son accuse his mother of sleeping with his best friend and described conversations about keeping teens from reporting the incident, plus claims Roberts threatened self-harm.
  • Prosecutors played a 2025 forensic interview in which Roberts’ son said he saw sex through a window crack, though on the stand he said he was uncertain; her daughter’s recorded interview said she saw them “on top of each other.”
  • Jurors saw party photos showing minors with drinks and a bikini photo prosecutors called lewd, along with texts about alcohol for teens and a message from the son noting the boy’s age; authorities say the alleged victim was 16.
  • A DoorDash driver testified he delivered Plan B to Roberts’ home on an order from a “Misty C” account and recognized the address from prior visits.