Corinth Man Charged With Sexual Battery

DANNY TRIPLETT

PRESS RELEASE

Jackson, MS- A Corinth man has been arrested for sexual battery of a vulnerable person, announced Attorney General Jim Hood today.

Danny Ray Triplett, age 48, of Corinth, was arrested Wednesday by investigators with the Attorney General’s Office Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with assistance from the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department. Triplett is charged with one count of sexual battery of a vulnerable person.

Triplett admitted to sexually penetrating the victim while at the Group Home and is charged with “willfully, unlawfully and feloniously engaging in sexual penetration as defined in section 97-3-97, of the Mississippi Code of 1972, Annotated, with a vulnerable person, as defined in section 43-47-5, contrary to and in violation of Section 43-47-18 (1)(b) of the Mississippi Code of 1972, as amended.” The victim is an adult male who has been diagnosed with profound mental disabilities.

Triplett was booked into Alcorn County Jail and bond was set at $10,000. If convicted, Triplett faces a maximum of 30 years in jail and $10,000 in fines.