A Slidell area man received a 115 year prison sentence after pleading guilty to child sexual abuse and child pornography production charges that had been returned for a new trial, the district attorney’s office announced Monday.
David Allen Hammond Jr., 47, entered the pleas November 5 before District Judge Tara Farris Zeller. The new sentence will run consecutively to a 15 year term he is already serving, according to District Attorney J. Collin Sims.
The pleas followed an appeal of Hammond’s May 2019 convictions. In August 2020, the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal upheld four convictions but overturned 24 others because the jury verdicts were not unanimous, the district attorney’s office said. Those counts were returned for retrial under the U.S. Supreme Court’s Ramos v. Louisiana decision.
Hammond pleaded guilty rather than proceeding to a second trial. The victim addressed the court before sentencing.
