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An appeals court has rejected the appeal of a former priest convicted of rape, molestation and sexual battery of children.
Mark Broussard was convicted by a Calcasieu Parish jury last spring of five child sex charges. The crimes occurred while he was a Catholic priest in the 1980s. He’s no longer a priest; he left the church in 1994, according to evidence presented at his trial.
Broussard was convicted of molesting and raping an altar boy over the course of four years, beginning when the child was 10 years old. He is serving two life sentences, plus 55 years on the charges. All the sentences are being served consecutively, or one after the other. The life sentences are without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.
Shortly after he was sentenced, he asked the Court to reconsider that sentence. His motion was denied without a hearing.
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