BATON ROUGE, La. - The 18-year-old son of Alton Sterling has been accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy this weekend.
According to arrest documents from the Baton Rouge Police Department, the incident happened on Dec.8. at a Baton Rouge home. Documents say the child told investigators that Cameron Sterling pulled him into a bedroom, locked the door and raped him.
The report said the child's mother questioned Sterling who told her that nothing had happened. Sterling did allegedly tell her that he was having a mental episode.
Sterling was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on one count of first-degree rape.
Cameron Sterling's father, Alton Sterling, was fatally shot by a police officer outside a Baton Rouge convenience store in 2016.