More arrested in cult case

By Steven Ward
Baton Rouge Advocate
Saturday, May 21, 2005

Tangipahoa sheriff alleges devil worship in child rape,
animal sex case

Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards said Friday that
members of a Ponchatoula church cult accused of sexually
abusing children and animals told detectives they carried
out the practices for years as part of a devil-
worshipping ritual involving cat blood.

"This is hard to talk about and harder to believe, but
some of the suspects have told us their intention in all
of this was devil worshipping," Edwards said.

Investigators arrested four more people on Thursday who
are allegedly implicated in the child and animal sex
ring, one of them a woman who is married to the already
arrested minister of the church.

Thursday's four arrests brought to eight the number of
people arrested so far after a six-week investigation
into a Hosanna Church splinter group.

Edwards said earlier in the week that the people involved
in the cult reportedly had sex with children and animals
from 1999 until the church disbanded in 2003.

The investigation by the Livingston and Tangipahoa Parish
sheriff's offices, the FBI and the Ponchatoula Police
Department is continuing, he said.

Edwards said Friday there might be as many as 25 possible
victims, and that he knows of at least one more suspect
in the case to be arrested and booked with aggravated
rape. He identified her only as a woman who is living out
of state.

Edwards said the victims in the case range from toddlers
to teenagers and some of the victims are dogs and cats.

"We know of one dog. That was a pet and the dog is dead
now," Edwards said. The sheriff said one of the suspects
had sex with that dog, and that blood from a cat was used
in the cult's rituals. The dog and cat victims apparently
were pets belonging to members of the church's
congregation, he added.

The sheriff said that there may be more arrests ahead.

"We feel like we have the core group, but I can't say
there won't be more arrests," Edwards said.

The Tangipahoa Sheriff's Office, Edwards said, has been
receiving calls every hour from people who either know
the suspects involved or who knew that something strange
was going on.

"It's mind-boggling to us that nobody came forward before
this," Edwards said, "that it wasn't somehow common
knowledge in Ponchatoula."

Robbin D. Lamonica, 45, 25735 Oak Alley Drive, Holden,
was booked Thursday night on one count of aggravated
rape.

The male victim in the case told Livingston Parish
deputies that he had been having sex with Robbin Lamonica
from the time he was 4 years of age until he was 13,
Livingston Parish Sheriff's Detective Stan Carpenter said
Friday.

Robbin Lamonica's husband, Louis Lamonica, 45, was
arrested Monday and booked with aggravated rape and one
count of crimes against nature. Louis Lamonica, the
former minister of the Hosanna Church, confessed to
Livingston Parish deputies that he had sex with children
and animals, investigators said. Louis Lamonica is the
first of the eight to be arrested.

Also arrested Thursday is Nicole Bernard, 36 of Columbus,
Ohio. FBI agents arrested Nicole Bernard in Ohio on a
warrant from the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office,
spokeswoman Laura Covington of the Tangipahoa Sheriff's
Office said Friday.

Nicole Bernard was booked with aggravated rape of a
juvenile under the age of 13, Covington said.

Nicole Bernard is the former wife of another suspect,
Austin Bernard III, 36, Southwest Railroad Avenue,
Hammond. Austin Bernard III was arrested Wednesday and
booked with aggravated rape after he confessed to having
sex with a child under 13, Covington said.

Paul Fontenot, 21, 550 West Pine St., Apt. 29, was
arrested Thursday and booked by Tangipahoa deputies with
aggravated rape of a juvenile under the age of 13.

Covington said that Fontenot confessed to deputies that
he had sex with a juvenile and admitted to having
knowledge of the incidents at Hosanna Church.

Lois Ann Mowbray, 54, 39133 Keaghey Road, Ponchatoula, is
the fourth suspect arrested Thursday.

Tangipahoa deputies booked Mowbray with obstruction of
justice, failure to report a felony and accessory after
the fact to aggravated rape, Covington said.

Investigators searched Mowbray's home Thursday night,
seizing photo albums, computers and other items,
Covington said.

Two earlier arrests in the unfolding investigation are
those of Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Deputy Christopher
Blair Lebat, 24, Lumino Lane, Hammond. Lebat was booked
with aggravated rape and malfeasance in office. The
Sheriff's Office fired Labat on Tuesday, the same day he
was arrested in the cult investigation.

Tangipahoa deputies booked Allen R. Pierson, 46, 2575
Southwest Railroad Avenue, Hammond, on Wednesday night
with one count of aggravated rape. Pierson is accused of
raping a girl under the age of 11, the Sheriff's Office
said.

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