A former part-time New Roads police officer and high-ranking volunteer firefighter was sentenced Thursday to three life sentences without the possibility of parole, an additional 70 years in prison, and chemical castration after a jury convicted him of raping three children under the age of 13. Kedreyon Williams, who once wore both a badge and a firefighter's uniform in Pointe Coupee Parish, now faces the rest of his life behind bars for crimes a prosecutor said were hidden behind a trusted public role.
Jury Convicts Williams on Five Counts
In October, a jury found Williams guilty of three counts of first-degree rape, one count of indecent behavior with a juvenile, and one count of pornography involving a juvenile, according to Unfiltered with Kiran. Williams worked as a part-time New Roads police officer from October 2017 until May 2019 and served as a high-ranking volunteer firefighter during roughly the same stretch, the outlet reported, before he stopped working for both agencies in 2019. Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's deputies arrested him in July 2024 on multiple counts of sex crimes against children.
Accounts of the victims' exact ages differ. The same outlet's reporting states that all three victims were under 13 at the time of the abuse, while one mother told the court her children were seven, eight and 12 years old when it happened. A separate report from WAFB states that the juveniles Williams was convicted of raping were between the ages of 8 and 11 and were forced to perform sex acts on him.
Prosecutor Calls Him a Predator in Disguise
Assistant District Attorney Chad Aguillard, the lead prosecutor on the case, described Williams as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Aguillard, who prosecuted the case alongside Assistant District Attorney Haley Major Green, said he believed this marked the first time a Pointe Coupee Parish judge had imposed chemical castration under the aggravated rape statute. He said the sentence meant the victims and their families could finally have some closure.
At least two families were involved in the case, and mothers of the victims gave victim-impact statements during Thursday's sentencing. One mother said the sentence marked the end of a painful chapter in their lives and called her son courageous, saying he was her hero. Another mother said Williams' actions affected not just her son but her other children too, and that her kids could no longer go anywhere without her by their side. That mother thanked Judge Kevin Kimball for getting justice for the boys.
Louisiana's Castration Statute Faces Its Own Scrutiny
Williams' sentence lands amid broader questions about how Louisiana enforces castration as a punishment for child sex crimes. A 2026 report from the Louisiana Illuminator found that Louisiana is the only state where surgical castration is a sentencing option, under a law approved in 2024 that applies to cases involving victims younger than 15. The outlet also reported that the Louisiana Department of Corrections said it had never carried out a surgical castration and has no staff or contractors on hand to perform one. A law-review article published in the Dickinson Law Review argued that gaps in the statute could raise ethical concerns that deter or prevent physicians from administering the procedure.
The Illuminator reported that Carrol Ray Clark of Assumption Parish became the first person sentenced under the new surgical-castration law, agreeing to a 35-year prison term and surgical castration after pleading guilty to sex offenses involving a juvenile. Other Louisiana cases have relied on chemical rather than surgical castration: in Bossier City, Robert Bridges received four life terms for first-degree rape, with a judge also ordering chemical castration, according to KTBS. In Walker, Kevin Oglethorpe was sentenced in 2022 to 30 years at hard labor, subject to chemical castration before his release, per a report from AN17.
Louisiana law, as published by the Louisiana State Legislature, states that a defendant sentenced to MPA treatment or ordered to undergo physical castration who takes a drug or other substance to reverse the effects shall be held in contempt of court. It remains unclear how that provision applies to the chemical-castration portion of Williams' sentence. For the families in Pointe Coupee Parish, the case that began with a 2024 arrest has now closed with the harshest penalties Louisiana law allows.
