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Apparently shot at New Orleans Airport in Louisiana.

The relevant statute is RS 14:43.1, and it reads (in relevant part):

A. Sexual battery is the intentional engaging in any of the following acts with another person where the offender acts without the consent of the victim, or where the act is consensual but the other person, who is not the spouse of the offender, has not yet attained fifteen years of age and is at least three years younger than the offender:
(1) The touching of the anus or genitals of the victim by the offender using any instrumentality or any part of the body of the offender

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C. ... (2) Whoever commits the crime of sexual battery on a victim under the age of thirteen years when the offender is seventeen years of age or older, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than twenty-five years nor more than life imprisonment. At least twenty-five years of the sentence imposed shall be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

Touching through clothing is sufficient to complete the touching element of the crime. State in Interest of D.M., 1997-0628 (La.App. 1st Cir.11/7/97), 704 So.2d 786; State v. Bouton, 615 So.2d 23 (La.App. 3d Cir.1993).

The defendant made RS sit on his lap. He then put his hand on “the part between my legs.” This is sufficient to convict the defendant of sexual battery.- See also State v. Simpkins, 12 So.3d 1021 (La.App. 2 Cir. 2009):