St. Tammany coroner to ‘reconsider’ sexual assault nurse program after lawsuit filed

I thought it was proven that it was actually federal grant money that pays for all of it?

Tape seems like a piece of work, and considering some of the other elected officials that St Tammany has had in recent years, that's truly saying something.

Actually looks like it pays most but not all:

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The SANE program is largely funded through state and federal grants, according to former St. Tammany Coroner Charles Preston. In a press conference earlier this week, Tape said that he did not fully understand the finances of the SANE program.

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Preston indicated that, last year, the program cost St. Tammany's taxpayers a total around $70,000 that wasn't covered by grants or other funds. This year, however, the coroner got additional grant funding and he expects SANE to have a $22,000 surplus.

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So if there is some additional money needed, all five parishes should put up on a pro-rata basis.

Isn’t the dude a pedo rapist?

Beyond the extracurricular stuff, I know Tape to be a fairly incompetent pathologist, too.

The sooner he’s out of public office the better.

Just because he wasn’t convicted doesn’t mean he isn’t a pedo rapist. I think he got off on a a technicality. Something about the trial not being expedient enough of something like that.

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Something about the trial not being expedient enough of something like that.

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So why didn't the DA go to trial in a timely manner? Was there solid evidence of a crime, or not? He was charged with a crime, but the DA did nothing else with the case.

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St. Tammany coroner

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sexual assault nurse program

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The irony...