Penalty For Crimes Against Children

Any person 17 years of age or older who takes or attempts to take any immoral, improper or indecent liberties with any child of either sex under the age of 15 years with the intent of arousing, appealing to or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires of either such person or such child, or who shall commit or attempt to commit any lewd or lascivious acts upon the body of such child, with aforesaid intent, or any person who shall entice, allure or persuade any such child to any place whatever for the purpose of taking any such immoral or indecent liberties, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than twenty years. Act does not apply to offenses constituting incest, rape, seduction, sodomy, or other infamous crimes.

R. S., ch. 38, sec. 42ha.

Crime Against Nature

The infamous crime against nature, either with man or beast, is punishable with imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than ten years.

R. S., ch. 38. sec. 47.