CENTRAL — A former volunteer wrestling coach who was accused of molesting a 16-year-old student avoided prison time and will not have to register as a sex offender after pleading guilty to a lesser charge. 

Aujyri Harris, 23, of Addis, was arrested in February 2025 after a 16-year-old girl said she performed a sex act on him in a car parked outside a middle school. 

Harris was initially charged with carnal knowledge of a juvenile. On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to obscenity.

A judge sentenced Harris to two years of probation, 50 hours of community service, and he cannot own a firearm. Harris is also banned from contacting the victim and from working as a coach or teacher again.

LHSAA records listed Harris as a coach in the Central Community School District. An affidavit filed by deputies says Harris became a non-faculty coach at a school located somewhere inside East Baton Rouge Parish last October. Central school officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.