Pedicini found guilty of multiple sex crimes

A Shreveport man charged with rape and a host of serious sex crimes was found guilty in Caddo District Court Wednesday, February 11, 2026.

An eight-woman, four-man jury in District Judge John D. Mosely Jr.'s court returned its unanimous guilty-as-charged verdicts against Dustin Gene Pedicini, 38, after 21 minutes of deliberation. He was charged with first-degree rape, indecent behavior with a juvenile, pornography involving a juvenile and molestation of a juvenile. 

The evening of October 30, 2024, Caddo deputies responded to a report of a sexual assault in the Southern Hills neighborhood. The complainant had found pictures and movies of child pornography involving her daughter on a male relative's phone. The victim was taken for a forensic interview at the Gingerbread house and provided a detailed statement.

Pedicini, the defendant, was questioned and admitted he was the man in the pictures and videos, but claimed not to remember anything about them. His phone was seized and analyzed forensically and was determined to contain numerous images and videos of child abuse material of sexual content.

When Pedicini next appears in court, February 25, 2026, he faces life imprisonment at hard labor without probation, parole or suspension of sentence for the rape conviction.

The other convictions carry sentences of not less than two years at hard labor nor more than 25 years with at least two years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence; not less than 10 years nor more than 40 years at hard labor without the benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence; and at least 25 years at hard labor up to 99 years, without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.

Pedicini was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Ross Owen and Treneisha Hill. The Caddo Parish Public Defender's office  represented him. 

The case was docket No. 404948.

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