Louisiana’s legislature has voted to outlaw attempts to gain children’s trust with the intent to sexually abuse them – an anti-grooming statute that was championed by a survivor of Catholic clergy molestation, his wife and her father, who is a state lawmaker.
The law was primarily authored by Louisiana state senator Pat Connick at the suggestion of his daughter, Sarah Gioe, whose husband – Tim Gioe – was in grade school in the 1990s when he was abused by a priest who had befriended him and his family.
