Ex-judge is charged with creating fake sex ads for 2 women, one of whom was a former client
A onetime Texas judge who was mired in controversy during his few years on the bench is facing new trouble.
Former Galveston County Court-at-Law Judge Christopher Dupuy, 43, was arrested last week on online harassment charges. He is accused of posting fake Internet ads offering the paid sexual services of two women, at least one of who was a former girlfriend, according to the Crimesider page of CBS News and the Houston Chronicle. The ads included photographs of the women and their phone numbers.
KPRC says one of the women told police she is a former matrimonial client of Dupuy’s and refused his efforts to establish a relationship. At that point Dupuy began harassing her on Facebook, she said.
Although Dupuy allegedly used identity-concealing software and alias accounts to create the backpage.com ads, authorities subpoenaed the website for information about who posted the ads and were able to identify him as a suspect. Bail was set at $600,000 in the Galveston case.
“To me the most startling thing is just how bold he was,” assistant Galveston County district attorney Adam Poole told KPRC. “These are serious felony offenses; to do that just to annoy and harass these women.”
The news articles don’t include any comment from Dupuy or his legal counsel.
In September 2013, Dupuy took a misdemeanor plea related to his claimed mistreatment of lawyers who appeared before him and resigned his judicial position. He was sentenced to two years of probation and deferred adjudication.
Dupuy was elected in 2010, in a race against the judge who had handled his divorce case.
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