Slidell Man Gets Two Life Sentences For Raping Two Juveniles

District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on May 9, 2025, 63-year-old Robert Allen Morgan of Slidell was sentenced by Judge Richard Swartz to two life terms in prison after a jury found him guilty of raping two juveniles.  The jury also found Morgan guilty on two counts of molestation of a child under age thirteen, one count of indecent behavior with a juvenile and one count of sexual battery of a child under age fifteen.  Judge Swartz sentenced Morgan to 25 years in prison on each molestation charge, ten years in prison on the sexual battery charge and seven years in prison on the indecent behavior charge.  All sentences were ordered to run concurrent with each other. 

Assistant District Attorneys Christina Fisher and Tiffany Dover presented the case to the jury during a weeklong trial in February.  Judge Richard Swartz presided over the trial.  Detective Nicholas Fishel, formerly with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Office and now with Louisiana State Police, was in charge of the investigation.

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According to trial testimony, at a gathering during the summer of 2021, a teenaged girl made a remark to friends about being molested years earlier.  The mother hosting the group of teens overheard the girl’s remark and spoke to the girl about it.  She then reported it to the Department of Children and Family Services and to the girl’s mother.  The girl’s parents in turn notified the police and the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office began an investigation. 

The teen was interviewed by forensic interviewer Cally Huggins at the Children’s Advocacy Center’s Hope House in Covington.  During her interview, the girl identified Robert Morgan as having sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions for several years prior to her becoming a teen.  As detectives proceeded with their investigation, two additional teens, one female and one male, disclosed they too had been sexually assaulted by the defendant years earlier.  They both were interviewed and, like the first teen, provided detailed accounts of the sexual acts the defendant perpetrated on them. 

When detectives confronted Morgan with the accusations made by the victims, he initially denied them but later conceded that he had in fact performed sexual acts on and with the victims.  When describing one of the sex acts involving the young male, Morgan said it was “exhilarating” for him.  At the conclusion of the interview, Morgan said he prays for forgiveness.

On the day of Morgan’s sentencing, two victims and two parents gave statements during the court proceedings in regard to the impact Morgan’s crimes had on them and their families.  One of the parents stated, “We had no idea that we had a monster among us.  A monster that wore good guy clothes.  And I speak for all of us by saying we are glad that Bob Morgan will spend the rest of his life behind bars.  That’s where monsters belong.”