Iberia Man Convicted and Sentenced for Second Degree Battery and Attempted Second Degree Murder

     New Iberia, Louisiana:  Defendant, Bradley Boudreaux, was convicted for events of domestic violence occuring in May and June of 2017.  Boudreaux pled guilty on September 10, 2018 open ended to Second Degree Battery and open ended with a cap of forty years to Attempted Second Degree Murder.

     In May of 2017, the defendant fractured the victim's rib during a domestic dispute.  After his arrest and posting of bond, he subsequently violated the no contact order put in place and committed an escalated offense of Attempted Second Degree Murder in which he hit the victim with his truck as she tried to escape from him in the Lowe's parking lot on Hwy. 14.  During the same altercation he also strangle the victm, knocked her unconscious, and knocked eight teeth from her mouth.  He fled the location with the victim holding her captive until his apprehension the following day.  Boudreaux had two prior convictions both for Second Degree Battery in 2005 and 2007.

     At a sentencing hearing held on January 10, 2019, Judge Suzanne deMahy sentenced the defendant to five years on the charge of Second Degree Battery and twenty years on the charge of Attempted Second Degree Murder concurrent with one another. 

     The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney, Alister Charrier, and the investigation was handled by the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office, Detective K. Landry and Deputy C. S. Legendre.