WWL-TV Report “St. Tammany coroner-elect announces plans to stop doing sexual assault investigations.”

2024: Eliminates Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program serving 5 parishes.Dr. Christopher Tape was scheduled to take office on March 25th and just four days prior, he sent a letter to the SANE nurses informing them that he was eliminating their sexual assault examination program and laying them off. This is a program ran by specially trained forensic exam nurses that service region 9, to include 5 parishes. Dr. Tape stated that he was turning over the program to the hospitals, which are not prepared to handle these examinations and were not informed in advance.