Body of Missing Girl Found in Louisiana

[The Kentucky Wizard]

By Associated Press

November 27, 2002, 5:24 AM EST

BATON ROUGE, La. -- The body of a missing 12-year-old girl was found after
police were led to the scene by the girl's stepfather, a convicted sex
offender who was later charged in her slaying, police said.

Detectives arrested Gerald "Jimmy" Bordelon, 40, on a count of first-degree
murder in the death of Courtney LeBlanc, whose body was discovered Tuesday
on a muddy road, said Lt. Darrell O'Neal, a sheriff's spokesman.

LeBlanc had been missing since Nov. 14. Jennifer Bordelon, 32, had insisted
her daughter was kidnapped from their Denham Springs home. She declined to
comment.

Jimmy Bordelon, who pleaded guilty in 1990 to a charge of forcible rape and
two counts of aggravated crime against nature in East Baton Rouge Parish,
was active in the early stages of the search for LeBlanc and had even talked
to reporters about her disappearance.

Authorities said Bordelon had twice been accused of molesting LeBlanc in
Mississippi, but had never been prosecuted.

In an interview with The Advocate of Baton Rouge last week, Bordelon
described the Mississippi incident as a "misunderstanding."