BATON ROUGE, La. (WGNO) — State Sen. Beth Mizell has introduced a law that would ban child sex dolls after being alerted of one of the dolls being shipped to Metairie.
On Monday, March 11, Mizell introduced the bill to the Senate, on the first day of Louisiana’s regular session.
The bill, which creates the crime of possessing, trafficking or importing a child sex doll, was pre-filed on Feb. 28.
Mizell addressed the senate by sharing that she wasn’t aware of a specific type of “childlike dolls” until a situation with Homeland Security was brought to her attention.
“This came through a phone call I had, frankly, with a homeland security agent about trafficking. As we were finishing the call, he said, ‘but I need a favor’ and he mentioned a concern they have for the importation of dolls I had never heard of.”
Mizell explained how an agent on the West Coast had received a package through border processing with a label describing it as a mannequin.
She said when agents were concerned about it being “too small” to be a mannequin, they were prompted to open the box and in it was “what appeared to be a 12-month-old child, but very realistic, with all the parts there for sexual gratification, basically.”
She said the doll came from Asia and was addressed to someone in Metairie.
The bill passed out of committee on Tuesday, March 12.
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