FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 23, 2018

COVINGTON—District Attorney Warren Montgomery reports that a St. Tammany Parish grand jury indicted Anwar Damine Ruffin, 40, of Hammond Thursday (March 22) of first degree rape and sexual battery of a victim under 13.

Ruffin is accused of raping and committing sexual battery upon an 11-year-old girl in early January 2017 at her home in Lacombe.