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Gays in Baton Rouge arrested under invalid sodomy law
Sheriff's Office sets up park stakeouts to ensnare gay men
BY JIM MUSTIAN
Advocate staff writer
July 27, 2013
An undercover East Baton Rouge Parish sheriffs deputy was staking out Manchac Park about 10 a.m. one day this month when a slow-moving sedan pulling into the parking lot caught his attention. The deputy parked alongside the 65-year-old driver and, after denying being a cop, began a casual conversation that was electronically monitored by a backup team nearby.
As the two men moved their chat to a picnic table, the deputy propositioned his target with some drinks and some fun back at his place, later inquiring whether the man had any condoms, according to court records. After following the deputy to a nearby apartment, the man was handcuffed and booked into Parish Prison on a single count of attempted crime against nature.
There had been no sex-for-money deal between the two. The men did not agree to have sex in the park, a public place. And the count against the man was based on a part of Louisianas anti-sodomy law struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court a decade ago.
The July 18 arrest is among at least a dozen cases since 2011 in which a Sheriffs Office task force used the unenforceable law to ensnare men who merely discussed or agreed to have consensual sex with an undercover agent, an investigation by The Advocate has found.
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Aristus
(66,474 posts)their erstwhile foothold in the New World, is there?
eShirl
(18,505 posts)Trillo
(9,154 posts)One of the commenters to the article points out that the heterosexual couples found having sex in the park are simply told to leave.