ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The CEO of EPIC Behavioral Healthcare, a community behavioral health organization based in St. Augustine that offers mental health services, shared a statement to First Coast News Thursday after one of their former workers was arrested Wednesday on child sex crimes.
Elizabeth Blanchard, 34, was arrested on the following charges:
- Lewd or lascivious battery on a victim age 12 to 16
- Use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony
- Travel to meet after use of a computer to lure a child
- Cause to become delinquent dependent needy (two counts)
- Sexual battery on victim 12 years of age under 18 years of age by custodian (four counts)
According to Blanchard’s arrest warrant, a 15-year-old boy had been seeing Blanchard since June 18.
The warrant states that the boy told St. Johns County sheriff’s detectives in a recorded interview that Blanchard “would only flirt with him and call/text him,” but that their connection “eventually progressed” to Blanchard kissing him and “asking to perform oral sex.”…