FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 26, 2018

 

COVINGTON—District Attorney Warren Montgomery reports that a St. Tammany Parish grand jury indicted Michael Anthony Scott, 49, of Mandeville, Wednesday (July 25) of first degree rape of a victim under 13 and sexual battery of a victim under 13.

Scott is accused of raping a girl, who was 9 years old when the abuse began, over a period of about a year in Mandeville.  Both charges involve the same victim.

Assistant District Attorney Ysonde Boland, Chief of the Screening and Juvenile Divisions, presented the case to the grand jury.