To be fair and up-front here, the law states no person can HIRE a child in those capacities. If a minor competes in events of this nature for a local school, athletic league, or the Olympics, they are not HIRED or paid to do so, and this law is specific about hiring, i.e. paying a minor to do these types of things.

So long as it paints the justice system, law enforcement and the media in a negative light, I’m all for it! The public doesn’t have a clue how overly excessive and militant the registry actually is. Most see it as a tool for vengeance with the collective “they made their bed” narrative.

A culture shift needs to happen.

Perhaps a better question to ask might be how many police, prosecutors, legislators, etc., in Louisiana have ever had a child enrolled in a local gymnastics class and an event was held for that class to exhibit what the young “gymnasts” have learned.
By the very law the legislators created, the police are sworn to enforce, and the prosecutors duty is to prosecute, shouldn’t they follow their own “zero crimes against children” mantra and start arresting, prosecuting, and convicting themselves?
My inner “Gomer Pyle” wants to start shouting “Citizens ay-rest! Citizens ay-rest!” and take them all down myself to show them how idiotic these laws can be.

I guess the Olympic games better stay away from there. Most of the girls on the gymnastic teams are 14 or younger.

Also, in addition to my last comment, How do they have any youth sports. The way the law reads, Every person involved with youth sports is an SO

Does that mean, that if you are the noncustodial parent, and you go to court, you are a sex offender? HOW F***ing stupid is that

Sort of SUCKS if you are an Olympian from LA. Stupid

Louisiana law 23.251 – No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed, exhibited, used, or trained for the purpose of exhibition: As a rope or wire walker, gymnast, wrestler, contortionist, stunt rider, or acrobat upon any bicycle or other similar mechanical vehicle or contrivance.

Louisiana law RS 14.45.1
Interference with the custody of a child is the intentional taking, enticing, or decoying away of a minor child by a parent not having a right of custody, with intent to detain or conceal such child from a parent having a right of custody pursuant to a court order or from a person entrusted with the care of the child by a parent having custody pursuant to a court order.

Oh the irony if the DA would pursue this against my former father in law after he manipulated and kept my own kids from me because I was the horrible RSO