Convicted Child Molester Dies In Prison; Cause Undetermined
Convicted Child Molester Dies In Prison; Cause Undetermined
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Jackie Gorski-
Convicted Child Molester Dies In Prison; Cause UndeterminedA former Silver Lake man convicted in October of child molestation has died in prison.
According to Annie Goeller, chief communications officer for the Indiana Department of Corrections, Daniel Louvier, 38, died June 13.
According to LaPorte County Coroner Lynn Swanson, the cause and manner Louvier’s death is still pending toxicology results and is therefore an open case.
Louvier was convicted Oct. 13 on two Level 4 felonies for child molesting. On Nov. 24, he was sentenced to 24 years in prison by the late Kosciusko Superior Court I Judge David Cates.
A jury took less than an hour to convict Louvier after hearing testimony from the two female victims who said Louvier touched them several times over a period of time.
At the trial, Louvier’s public defender, Travis Neff, said his client has always denied the allegations and attempted to form a defense that somehow the children were in cahoots and fabricated the entire story to take Louvier down.
At the time of his death, Louvier was serving his sentence at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City with an earliest projected release date of May 14, 2039.
On March 19, Louvier had filed for an appeal with the Indiana Court of Appeals for his 24-year prison sentence to be reduced, stating Cates abused the trial court’s discretion when sentencing Louvier to the maximum of 24 years and ignoring case law that requires maximum sentences to be reserved for “the worst of the worst.”
