Shreveport Sex Offender Arrested for Sexual Battery

On May 15th, 2023, Officers were contacted in reference to a sexually based crime occurring in the area of Monkhouse Drive. Through the findings of the investigation, detectives arrested Christopher Wilder (09/28/84) for one count of sexual battery.

The victim is expected to recover. Wilder is currently a registered sex offender for prior sexually based offense.

Sexual battery is the intentional touching of the anus or genitals of the victim by the offender using any instrumentality or any part of the body of the offender, directly or through clothing, or the touching of the anus or genitals of the offender by the victim using any instrumentality or any part of the body of the victim, directly or through clothing, when any of the following occur:

(1) The offender acts without the consent of the victim.

(2) The victim has not yet attained fifteen years of age and is at least three years younger than the offender.

(3) The offender is seventeen years of age or older and any of the following exist:

(a) The act is without consent of the victim, and the victim is prevented from resisting the act because either of the following conditions exist:

(i) The victim has paraplegia, quadriplegia, or is otherwise physically incapable of preventing the act due to a physical disability.

(ii) The victim is incapable, through unsoundness of mind, of understanding the nature of the act, and the offender knew or should have known of the victim's incapacity.

(b) The act is without consent of the victim, and the victim is sixty-five years of age or older.

All persons are innocent until proven guilty.