BOSSIER CITY SEX CRIMES ATTORNEY

Sexual battery occurs when a defendant touches a victim sexually or makes the victim touch them sexually, either by body part or any kind of instrument, without their consent. If the perpetrator inflicts serious injury to the victim or if the victim is particularly vulnerable, sexual battery is penalized more harshly.

The act of anal, oral, or vaginal sexual intercourse with a male or female without their lawful consent.

Statutory rape occurs when someone engages in sexual activity with someone who falls under the legal age of consent in Louisiana, which happens to be 17 years of age. In Louisiana, statutory rape is also called felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile. It doesn’t matter if the minor allegedly agreed to the sexual conduct. The law believes that if they do not meet the legal age of consent, they are too naive to fully understand the severity and importance of sexual relations, and thus, the perpetrator committed a sexually immoral crime.

Federal law strictly prohibits the possession, distribution, production, importation, or reception of any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor. If law enforcement agents find evidence of child pornography belonging to an individual, it will almost certainly lead to a sex crime arrest.

Online solicitation of a minor in Louisiana occurs when an adult engages in electronic communication with someone they know to be a minor, which is under the age of seventeen in Louisiana.  This typically occurs through commercial online services or other digital platforms, with the intent to commit a sexual offense or encourage the minor to engage in sexual conduct.

Molestation of a juvenile is the commission of a lewd act by anyone over the age of seventeen upon or in the presence of any child under the age of seventeen, where there is an age difference of more than 2 years, and with the intention of arousing or gratifying the sexual desires of either person. This can be by the use of force, violence, intimidation, the threat of bodily harm, or influence through a position of control or supervision, among several other tactics.

The practice of providing sexual favors or intercourse in exchange for compensation.

The solicitation of a person with the intent to provide compensation in return for sexual intercourse or other sexual favors. Prostitution and the solicitation of prostitution are both generally charged as a misdemeanor, but certain circumstances can lead to a felony sex crime charge.

Louisiana does not have a dedicated law specifically addressing “pimping.” However, activities commonly associated with pimping are covered under Louisiana statutes for “inciting” and “promoting” prostitution, which involves aiding, abetting, or assisting in a commercial enterprise where customers pay for prostitution services, with profits shared between the prostitute and the assisting party. Meanwhile, promoting prostitution is the knowing and intentional control, supervision, or management of a commercial enterprise where customers are charged for prostitution services.

Pandering, on the other hand, refers to the act of procuring or persuading someone to participate in prostitution, which includes recruiting, encouraging, or compelling an individual to become a sex worker. Both pimping and pandering in Louisiana are considered felonies.

Sex trafficking refers to knowingly recruiting, harboring, transporting, soliciting, providing, receiving, isolating, enticing, obtaining, or maintaining another person for the purpose of providing sexual services or labor through deception, force, or coercion.

The romantic or sexual relationship between two persons who are related by whole or half-blood. This may include any combination of mother or father, brother or sister, uncle or aunt, niece or nephew, or any blood-related kin who possesses knowledge of their inherent biological relationship.

Obscenity refers to the indecent exposure of the genitals, pubic hair, anus, vulva, or female nipples in any place open to the public view with the intent of arousing sexual desire or which appeals to lewd interests or is obviously offensive in nature.

This is when one person invades the privacy of a person by nonconsensually spying on them through doors, windows, or other openings of a private residence for the purpose of arousing or gratifying a sexual desire.

The unnatural carnal copulation with another human being of the same or opposite sex or with an animal (bestiality) is considered a crime against nature.

This charge occurs when a person fails to register, renew, or update sex offender registration on a regular basis, provide proof of residence, notify of a change of address or other registration information, or provide community notification as required by law, as well as a person who knowingly provides false information to a law enforcement agency when registering.

To be in violation of Louisiana’s revenge porn law, the following criteria must be met:

• Intentionally disclosing an image of another person who is over the age of 17, can be identified from the image, and has their intimate parts either wholly or partially exposed.
• Obtaining the image under circumstances that would reasonably lead someone to believe that it was meant to be kept private.
• Knowing or having the reasonable expectation that the person depicted in the image did not consent to its disclosure.
• Disclosing the image with the intention of harassing or causing emotional distress to the person depicted, while also being aware or reasonably should have been aware that such disclosure could result in harassment or emotional distress to that person.