LOUISIANA
The New Orleans Advocate
BY JOHN SIMERMAN| JSIMERMAN@THEADVOCATE.COM
Nov. 12, 2015
To the 28-year-old Mississippi man who took the witness stand Thursday in an Orleans Parish courtroom, the Rev. Kevin Boyd Sr. stood tall.
Boyd was his godfather, spiritual lodestar and surrogate father, he said, referring to the founder of The Church at New Orleans by his affectionate nickname, “Pop.”
And then the man, now a father himself, stood up and identified Boyd, 56, as the one who repeatedly molested him starting when he was 11 or 12 and continuing into his teens.
Often, he said, the abuse happened in Boyd’s home or in his church office on Chef Menteur Highway, where the pastor would lay out pillows or clean towels and remove the boy’s clothing to prepare for what became a ritual act.
The man, then the church drummer, said Boyd would sexually molest him while his mother — a close friend of Boyd’s from childhood — worked the night shift at Wal-Mart.
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