DA Warren Montgomery said last week a St. Tammany jury unanimously found 45 YO Glenn David Mills, Jr. of Slidell guilty as charged of first-degree rape of a child under the age of thirteen and molestation of a juvenile.
District Judge Richard Swartz presided over the case.
On July 10, 2019 the St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office received a 9-1-1 call reporting a rape of a juvenile. An eyewitness reported that she had left four children alone with the defendant in order to run an errand. When she returned, she walked in on the defendant, in the bathroom, assaulting a special needs victim. She let officers know that she’d recorded her confrontation with the defendant and had also received text messages from him after the incident. The defendant had fled the scene but was later arrested in Jefferson Parish. Prior to trial, the Judge had ruled that the victim did not have the mental capacity to testify on her own behalf. At trial, the eyewitness, along with two other family members, provided corroborating testimony.
Mills faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence. He will be sentenced on January 11, 2023.
Assistant District Attorneys Zachary Popovich and Taylor Nicholson prosecuted the case.
The investigation was handled by the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office.
