The best friend testified that disgraced mayor Misty Roberts was drunker than ever

Best friend of the disgraced mayor of Louisiana He is accused of raping a 16-year-old boy She testified that she told her son to “lie until she died” about what he saw at the drunken pool party where the alleged assault occurred.

Jill Weaver, the lifelong best friend and former sister-in-law of former DeRidder Mayor Misty Roberts, told the jury that when she first went to the raucous pool party around 8 p.m. on July 20, 2024, Roberts was the drunkest she had ever seen her, According to a report by KPLC.

“He was saying (Roberts) ruined his best friend,” Weaver recalled of the fight between mother and son. According to a report by the American newspaper Lake Charles.

Weaver left the party around 11 p.m. and her son invited her back around 2 a.m. after Roberts accused Weaver’s son of taking a video of her He allegedly sexually assaulted a drunk teenager At the party.

“Oh great, I called your mom,” Weaver recounted Roberts saying upon her second arrival at the church, KPLC reported.

The teens then showed their phones to the two adults to prove there were no videos of the incident, Weaver testified at the Beauregard Parish trial.

Eventually, Weaver texted her son to “lie til you die” that night and admitted she had talked with Roberts about how to keep the children from reporting what they saw to authorities.

Roberts appeared to lament the difficulty of keeping things under wraps in the town of just 9,800 people, when she texted Weaver and another person: “I hate this little town…”

Weaver recalls how the night evolved into Roberts threatening suicide.

“That whole night was difficult, it was chaos… She quickly went from that to wanting to kill herself.”

Weaver also testified that when she spoke to Roberts the next day, Roberts claimed she couldn’t remember what happened.

One of the teens at the party that night testified later Saturday that Roberts’ alleged victim was drunk and vomited.

Despite this, Roberts was flirting with the boy and dancing with him, the teenage witness said.

Jurors heard alleged damning evidence from Roberts’ son, daughter and nephew who were all at the party and said they saw the alleged victim’s mother shirtless with her inside a room where they appeared to be fooling around. They testified that none of the family members had seen any of their “sexual organs.”

The jury watched an interview with the son telling investigators he saw his mother giving the boy a lift through a crack in the window.

The daughter testified that she saw her mother and the teenager “on top of each other.”

Roberts’ nephew tried to take a video of what was happening in the room, although he did not know if he had pressed the “record” button. He said that if he did, he would never send the video to anyone.

After that night, the alleged victims’ mother texted Roberts about her possible pregnancy, and Roberts assured the mother that she was using birth control, text messages showed.

Roberts’ friends told her to take the pill the next morning.

The DoorDash driver also testified, telling jurors he dropped off Plan B at Roberts’ home. He said he recognized the house when his children went trick-or-treating on Halloween.

“I want you to deny it, please,” Roberts texted Clanton. He testified that although he was not necessarily denying the incident to people, he was avoiding the topic. He said he wouldn’t lie.

Roberts resigned as mayor just days after she resigned from the police force I launched an investigation that night. Roberts is charged with third-degree rape and contributing to juvenile delinquency.