A former Russellville funeral home director was sentenced to six months in the Pope County Detention Center this week after losing an appeal on charges of indecent exposure and harassment that were filed against him in 2016.
James Richard Broussard, 42, was found guilty of sexual harassment in an October 2016 trial, fined $800 and sentenced to six months of jail time for an incident in which he exposed himself to an employee in February of the same year.
Brousard appealed that ruling and legal wrangling allowed him to remain free on bond before he was found guilty again last Tuesday and sentenced to his original punishment.
Broussard showed his penis to the employee during a conversation he initiated about circumcision and evidence presented in the trial indicated a pattern of similar behavior with other female employees in the past.
He had made inappropriate comments, placed his hand inside of the blouse of one employee and stuck his hand in the panties of another in two other incidents, according to testimony in the trial.
