Erlis Joseph Chaisson is a serial child molester.
He first spent time in prison for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old in Louisiana but was released in 1994, according to KXXV.
The 47-year-old might have remained free if one 27-year-old north central Texas police officer hadn’t gone far above the call of duty.
The two weren’t strangers. In fact, they’re relatives.
And their pasts dovetail in a horrific way. For four years, Chaisson had sexually abused her when she was a young girl, forcing her to rub his penis and performing oral sex on her.
It began when she was 8 years old.
She became a cop. And in 2014, more than 15 years after the abuse, she arranged a meeting with him and secretly recorded their conversation.
She had a recorder stashed away in her bra, capturing the entire traumatic conversation.
On that two-hour tape, he described to her, in detail, what he did to her. He blames her for it. He tells her she wouldn’t understand because she doesn’t possess male genitalia. He praises himself by saying that at least, “I kept you a virgin, didn’t I?”
Most importantly, he confessed. Over and over and over again.
Because of that, he’ll spend life in prison, a jury recently decided.
The Washington Post broke the story and the name of the officer is not being released but on behalf of Law Officer, we applaud her for her courage and dedication to her profession. Unfortunately, many victims of sexual abuse continue that cycle and lives are never turned around. In this case, the coward that assaulted her will get to live the rest of his days in a jail cell and we have this courageous police officer to thank.