Former mayor’s son, nephew say they saw Roberts having sex with teen

Published 6:46 pm Friday, February 27, 2026

The juveniles present on the evening former DeRidder mayor Misty Roberts allegedly had sex with an underage teen provided their testimony Friday, as the trial of Roberts entered its second day.

Prosecutor Charles Robinson called Roberts’ son, C.C., who was 14 at the time of the alleged incident, and her nephew, H.R., now 17, to the stand individually as jurors watched a recording of their 2025 interviews with forensic interviewers with the Child Advocacy Center in Alexandria and the Child and Youth Family Counseling Center in Lake Charles.

In the video, Roberts’ son told interviewer Patra Minix that on the night of the alleged incident, he and his friends had been drinking and that Roberts had been drinking “a lot.” Toward the end of the night, he said he was alerted by H.R. that Roberts had gone upstairs and locked herself in a bonus room with the alleged victim.

C.C. said when he and H.R. went upstairs to the room, he confirmed the door was locked and that, when he peeked through the window blinds, he witnessed Roberts “having sex” with the alleged victim.

In the recorded interview, C.C. recalled Roberts doing lots of “yelling and screaming” when she was confronted by the teens, and that he had argued with her about it. When asked why he was arguing, C.C. responded that they had argued “about her being in the wrong.”

The next day, C.C. said Roberts became focused on making sure things “didn’t blow up” publicly over the incident.

During questioning on the witness stand, C.C. downplayed his testimony in the video and said that, in retrospect, he wasn’t sure if what he had seen that night was really Roberts having sex with the alleged victim. After further questioning by Robinson, the juvenile acknowledged he wanted Roberts to be acquitted.

In H.R.’s testimony, he testified that he took a video of Roberts having sex with the underage teen with the Snapchat app on his phone from outside the window, but that he didn’t see the video again after that night and that he couldn’t remember if he had saved it to his phone’s camera roll. He testified he did not view the video again after that night, and that he did not share it with anyone else after the night of the incident.

While questioning H.R., Robinson presented screenshots of text messages between H.R. and Roberts, in which Roberts told him she was sorry and said “please make sure (the victim) doesn’t tell anyone.”

H.R. responded to Roberts that he “would handle it.”

H.R. said “both sides” of the incident wanted to keep the incident quiet and encouraged everyone involved to deny it happened. He said he had been told that if anyone asked him about the incident, he was to “lie until you die.”

Throughout the trial, Ad Hoc Judge D. Kent Savoie has taken extreme measures to maintain decorum in the courtroom. Earlier on Friday, Savoie excused the jury while he addressed concerns that began earlier in the week regarding the color choices some observers chose to wear into the courtroom. On Thursday, it was noted that a small group of audience members seated together were all wearing a variation of teal, and on Friday, he had court officials separate a group of individuals wearing a similar shade of orange.

The trial will continue into the weekend, resuming at 9 a.m. Saturday.