Man drove juvenile rape victim from Louisiana to his home in Athens

Andrew Ben Aissi Elasri

By Joe Johnson

Masquerading as a teenager on social media, 22-year-old Andrew Elasri befriended a juvenile from Louisiana and brought her to his home Athens and raped her.

That’s according to the affidavit of an Athens-Clarke police Special Victims Unit detective when asking a judge to sign a search warrant for Elasri’s Snapchat account.

Elasri is under indictment on charges of statutory rape, child molestation, and two counts each of sexual battery of a child and enticing a child for indecent purposes.

The detective’s affidavit alleges that in July 2023 Elasri was pawning himself off as a teenager named Carrington when he befriended a 13-year-old girl in Louisiana.

After corresponding for a couple of weeks on Snapchat and iMessage they took a trip to Florida, with the girl’s 17-year-old friend tagging along. He picked them up in front of the victim’s gated neighborhood in St. Tammany Parish then drove to Panama City. Nothing sexual occurred during that weeklong stay.

However, about a week later, Elasri picked up the girl again, and this time brought her to his apartment at the Woodlands of Athens complex on Barnett Shoals Road, where they consensually engaged in sexual activity that included intercourse.

During a second visit to Athens, in August 2023, the victim alleges that she had not consented when Elasri forced himself on her without wearing a condom.

The victim is described as being diminutive and she felt “helpless because Elasri was much heavier than she was and she was not physically capable of moving him off of her.”

A few days after returning home to Louisiana, the girl tested positive with a store-bought pregnancy test then went to a women’s clinic where her pregnancy was confirmed.

Her parents filed a report with the Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office upon learning that their daughter had no not been on a trip with her friend and her family as she had claimed. They reported that their daughter was pregnant and named Elasri as the father.

The matter was handed over to the Athens-Clarke County Police Department, and Elasri was arrested last May on the basis of the Special Victims Unit detective’s investigation.

Judge Donarell Green denied him bail at a subsequent hearing in Magistrate Court and he’s been in pretrial detention ever since at the county jail.

An arraignment is scheduled for August 7.