One boy refused to sleep alone, fearing Troy Greenup “would find him,” a Jefferson Parish prosecutor said in court papers. Another boy said nothing about his encounters “until many years later because defendant specifically threatened him with a ‘whooping’ if he were to tell anyone about their ‘secret,'” Assistant District Attorney Sunny Funk wrote.
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“Both of the boys also indicated that the defendant acted in such a manner that made them afraid to tell anyone about the incidents,” Funk wrote.
Both boys eventually spoke up. Greenup, 40, is on trial this week for aggravated rape in the latter case, accused of committing “multiple incidents” of sexually abusing the child he threatened to beat.
Those alleged incidents happened between August 2001 and November 2004, beginning when he was 3 years old, according to the indictment. The boy, now 14, is not being identified.
Arrested in February 2011 in Waggaman for a warrant issued by the Westwego Police Department and indicted a year ago, Greenup is held in the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna. He would spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of probation, parole or suspended sentence if convicted as charged this week.
Jury selection began Tuesday in 24th Judicial District Judge June Darensburg’s court.
Greenup also awaits trial on a charge of sexual battery in the former case, involving a boy who is now 8 years old.
That incident allegedly happened between February 2009 and March 2009, when child was 3 years old, according to the indictment. Greenup was friends with the child’s parent, prosecutors say.
The child “mistakenly thought this behavior to be normal because of defendant’s repeated demands and touching, and his Grandmother discovered the abuse when (he) asked her to ‘touch his bone,’ like (Greenup) had done …,” Funk said in court papers.
Seeking to tell the jury this week about Greenup’s alleged history, Funk said in court documents that he was arrested in 1990 for sexual battery, when a juvenile girl went to his residence to borrow ketchup. He allegedly let her in, undressed her and was in the process of sexually abusing her when a knock at the door brought the event to an end.
Greenup’s public defender Andy Duffy said in court papers that the Jefferson Parish district attorney’s office refused to prosecute that case.
Assistant District Attorney Brandon Kinnett is prosecuting the case with Funk.
