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Melanie Curtin's re-trial starts next week *bump: not guilty*
Posted on 3/7/26 at 11:21 am
Posted on 3/7/26 at 11:21 am
This is going to be interesting case, anyone have the over/under on another conviction? Her prior conviction was tossed because potential exculpatory evidence was excluded. I won't rehash everything but it's a very nuanced case given all the parties proclivities.
Unfiltered with Kiran : LINK
LIVINGSTON — A woman whose name became publicly associated with the notorious Livingston Parish sex crimes case involving a former sheriff’s deputy & and his wife is headed back to court. This time, Melanie Curtin will go before a judge and jury on a reduced charge stemming from a 2014 sexual assault allegation.
Old TD Thread: LINK
Unfiltered with Kiran : LINK
LIVINGSTON — A woman whose name became publicly associated with the notorious Livingston Parish sex crimes case involving a former sheriff’s deputy & and his wife is headed back to court. This time, Melanie Curtin will go before a judge and jury on a reduced charge stemming from a 2014 sexual assault allegation.
Old TD Thread: LINK
This post was edited on 3/17/26 at 9:17 pm
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 12:18 pm to sleepytime
I could fix her...
Don't know if I would want to though.
Don't know if I would want to though.
This post was edited on 3/7/26 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 3/7/26 at 12:39 pm to sleepytime
Interested in seeing if there is some new exculpatory evidence or if this is just a quick conviction. This was the most perverse non murder crime in this area in decades. Hard to believe these people even existed. Shame that guy is still alive.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 1:06 pm to Lsupimp
There appears to be reasonable doubt as to the extent of her involvement and guilt. We should require first degree rape to be conclusively proven. If the DA makes the case so be it. I don’t remember all the evidence from last time but I remember her defense having a decent case
Posted on 3/7/26 at 1:07 pm to Lsupimp
Jason Ard should have resigned for this or been taken out at the booth. I can’t believe he’s still sheriff
Posted on 3/7/26 at 1:55 pm to Lsupimp
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Interested in seeing if there is some new exculpatory evidence or if this is just a quick conviction. This was the most perverse non murder crime in this area in decades. Hard to believe these people even existed. Shame that guy is still alive.
Melanie wasn't involved with any kids. When the police went through Denny's hard drives, there was a video of a 3 some with him, Melanie and someone else that appeared to be unconscious. Melanie said she was drugged and didn't recall. The unconscious person said she would never do anything like that and there was other evidence and possibly testimony showing that she was into kinky stuff exactly like that. That testimony/evidence wasn't allowed to be introduced into evidence.
It gets a little more complicated and you can kind of piece some things together from the court docs.
From what's been told to me by several people that knew all parties is that they were all into kinky stuff, had been for years and the alleged victim's assertion that she would never engage in a threesome or weird kinky stuff is hogwash.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 2:11 pm to cgrand
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There appears to be reasonable doubt as to the extent of her involvement and guilt. We should require first degree rape to be conclusively proven. If the DA makes the case so be it. I don’t remember all the evidence from last time but I remember her defense having a decent case
Jason Ard should have resigned for this or been taken out at the booth. I can’t believe he’s still sheriff
They downgraded the charge to simple rape for this trial. Lots of nuance to this case and it's not cut and dry, that may work in the defense favor. I don't think Ard knew, he went to bat for an old friend/classmate and likely knew Denny was a bit of a perv but not that he was that depraved.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 2:18 pm to sleepytime
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and the alleged victim's assertion that she would never engage in a threesome or weird kinky stuff is hogwash.
I heard the same.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 2:20 pm to cgrand
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Jason Ard should have resigned for this or been taken out at the booth. I can’t believe he’s still sheriff
Hell he's still doing predator stings with Chris Hansen.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 2:47 pm to sleepytime
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I don't think Ard knew, he went to bat for an old friend/classmate and likely knew Denny was a bit of a perv but not that he was that depraved.
I'm pretty sure he was told by someone in law enforcement from Baton Rouge. I think the guy told him based on interaction he'd witnessed.
Ard failed to "write it down" and generate an official record if I recall properly.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 2:58 pm to eitek1
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Ard failed to "write it down" and generate an official record if I recall properly.
Another agency did tell Ard things weren't Kosher. As far as not writing it down, that was people that wanted to make allegations against Denny but wouldn't put anything in writing.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 3:06 pm to sleepytime
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When the police went through Denny's hard drives, there was a video of a 3 some with him, Melanie and someone else that appeared to be unconscious. Melanie said she was drugged and didn't recall.
Appeared to be unconscious (in a role play type scenario), or was actually unconscious? I always assumed consent couldn't legally be given by an unconscious person.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 3:24 pm to jdd48
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I always assumed consent couldn't legally be given by an unconscious person.
Correct. Louisiana’s aggravated rape, simple rape, and sexual battery all involve consent and being able to give consent.
Louisiana criminal law follows a simple rule: Consent requires the ability to knowingly and voluntarily agree. A person who is unconscious, asleep, or otherwise incapable of awareness cannot legally give consent.
Louisiana courts generally treat unconsciousness as automatic incapacity, meaning: (1) no consent can legally exist; and/or (2) the act is non-consensual by definition.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 4:56 pm to sleepytime
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From what's been told to me by several people that knew all parties is that they were all into kinky stuff, had been for years and the alleged victim's assertion that she would never engage in a threesome or weird kinky stuff is hogwash.
Yea the girl got railroaded and got sentenced to life last time while Perkins wife got off on only 40 years for actually abusing kids and making cum cupcakes. The statue they used for her get life was a gangrape.
The victim basically lied on the stand about never having a threesome before and the judge didn’t allow proof that she lied in her testimony during the trial.
This post was edited on 3/7/26 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 3/7/26 at 5:24 pm to jdd48
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Appeared to be unconscious (in a role play type scenario), or was actually unconscious? I always assumed consent couldn't legally be given by an unconscious person.
That's partly where the case hinges. Was she really unconscious? There's supposedly evidence that says she was into weird CNC type stuff. There's also laws that say if Melanie was drugged, that's a defense for intent. That's plausible because it was part of Denny's MO but who can prove anything conclusive 10 years later.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 5:27 pm to sleepytime
So all of those chicks in college that rode my semi-blacked out arse raped me? That's a load of shite.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 6:17 pm to sleepytime
quote:he should have known; it was possible for him to find out. BRPD told him that Perkins was unstable and unfit. And even if he didn’t know, it doesn’t matter. Jason Ard has a duty to the public to protect them from harm to the best of his ability; employing an amoral predator and putting him in an authority position is inexcusable and Ard should have accepted his responsibility for that. Dennis Perkins had a long list of questionable behavior before all this came out
I don't think Ard knew, he went to bat for an old friend/classmate and likely knew Denny was a bit of a perv but not that he was that depraved.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 6:49 pm to sleepytime
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:03 pm to sleepytime
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I don't think Ard knew, he went to bat for an old friend/classmate and likely knew Denny was a bit of a perv but not that he was that depraved.
Ard was (still is) the Livingston Parish Sheriff when all of this was happening, Denny was the SWAT Commander for the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Department. It was Ard’s job to know, especially after warnings from another law enforcement agency.
“If you didn’t write it down it didn’t happen”. I wonder if he’d tell the kids who were victims the same thing? frick that piece of shite.
Ard should no longer be in law enforcement of any kind, period.
Posted on 3/7/26 at 10:23 pm to sleepytime
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Another agency did tell Ard things weren't Kosher. As far as not writing it down, that was people that wanted to make allegations against Denny but wouldn't put anything in writing.
And this is why Ard should have resigned or been asked to leave. I’m pretty sure folks aren’t required to write their own police report when giving information to the police. Even if the reporting agency didn’t want to put anything in writing, Ard should have. He’s the sheriff and should lead by example. Anything less, is “nonfeasance in office”.
How many kids were harmed due to the failure to act from the sheriff?
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