A 32-year-old city employee has resigned in the wake of being charged with harassing a former dating partner.
Christopher Daniel Prudhomme, 32, 900 block of Wayne Road, Eunice, was charged with two counts of nonconsensual disclosure of a private image, telephone harassment and cyberstalking.
He was arrested May 17 by Eunice Police.
Eunice Mayor Scott Fontenot said Prudhomme, who did general maintenance for the city, resigned Tuesday morning. He had worked 18 months for the city.
Police Chief Randy Fontenot said the case came to his department from Morse Police
The ex-girlfriend, who lives in Morse, said Prudhomme had sent her harassing text messages after she had told him to stop sending the, the police chief said.
“He also sent a photo of him with a barrel of a pistol in his mouth stating he was going to kill himself and blame her,” Chief Fontenot said.
In an eight-hour period in March he called the ex-girlfriend 62 times and left more than 20 voice mails after she told him to quit trying to contact her, he said.
“And then he started sending picture of her, of the victim, to other people. Her nude pictures, inappropriate pictures that he had that he claimed were pictures of her and sending to to different people,” Fontenot said.
“He also threatened to kill her and a child,” he said.
“So, she feared for the child’s safety as well as her’s,” he said.
Fontenot said the texting lasted March 16 to 29.
Prudhomme had a misdemeanor conviction of telephone harassment in 2018, Fotnenot said.
The police chief said he didn’t know the nature of the 2018 conviction.