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Three teens held in robbery of bones in New Iberia tomb

Written by DeadGirl
Thursday, 27 January 2005
By PATRICK COURREGES Acadiana bureau NEW IBERIA -- Iberia Parish sheriff's deputies have arrested a trio of teenage self-proclaimed "Goths" who allegedly robbed an old tomb of its remains and kept them in a bedroom. Iberia Parish Sheriff Sid Hebert said Tuesday that deputies arrested Jobe J. Wright, 17, 406 Duperior St.; Chantz Choate, 17, 309 Donald St.; and Charles Babineaux, 17, 4702 Plantation Village, Apt. 22, Sunday on a charge of burglary of a cemetery. Hebert said his office recently got a tip that several people might have been damaging graves in New Iberia. He said his deputies searched Wright's home and found a headstone under the front porch and the bones from the tomb "in a bag in a bedroom." During interviews following their arrest, the three teens claimed to be a part of the "Goth" culture and said that possessing human remains is part of it, Hebert said. "They felt it was important to their beliefs," he said. The remains are now in the possession of Iberia Parish Coroner James Falterman Sr., who released a statement giving his take on the alleged crime. "The recent discovery that several 17-year-old individuals were involved in grave robbing for the enjoyment of their grossly abnormal satanic behavior is inexcusable and incomprehensible," he wrote. "This type of crime violates all rules of our society and inflicts severe hurt and disgust on those families who have buried their dead." Hebert said the teens apparently had not put the remains to any particular use or done anything with them other than keep them. Hebert said that the headstone and remains both apparently came from the same tomb in St. Peter's Cemetery in New Iberia. Cemetery managers had not been aware of the theft, which apparently happened on the night of New Year's Eve, Hebert said. He said the headstone for the tomb was too weathered to make out a name or date, and the cemetery is still searching records to determine who was buried there. Hebert said the estimated age of the tomb is somewhere between 70 and 100 years. http://www.wbrz.com/stories/011905/new_bones001.shtml

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