Former Baton Rouge CEO sues health clinic after database error branded him a child molester

The former CEO of a shuttered Iberville Parish health clinic is suing the nonprofit for defamation and wrongful termination, claiming its handling of a false child sexual assault accusation derailed his career and personal life.

In early May 2023, Charles E Williams, the CEO of St. Gabriel Health Clinic, was waiting in the lobby of a local K-12 school when the assistant principal approached him to tell him he was a pedophile.

“You’re an offender, you have to leave now,” Williams testified during a Monday bench trial in Iberville Parish Court, recalling the assistant principal’s words…

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