Sex Offenses (Forcible)

A sexual offense consists of any sexual act directed against another person, forcibly and/or against that person's will; or not forcibly or against the person's will where the victim is incapable of giving consent.

• Forcible Rape - The carnal knowledge of a person, forcibly and/or not forcibly or against the person's will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (or because of his/her youth).

• Forcible Sodomy - Oral or anal sexual intercourse with another person, forcibly and/or against that person's will; or not forcibly against the person's will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because or his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity.

• Sexual Assault with an Object - The use of an object or instrument to unlawfully penetrate, however slightly, the genital or anal opening of the body of another person, forcibly and/or against that person's will; or not forcibly or against the person's will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity.

• Forcible Fondling - The touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, forcibly and/or against the person's will; or, not forcibly or against the person's will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental incapacity.

Sex Offenses (Non Forcible) - Unlawful, non forcible sexual intercourse.

• Incest - Non forcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

• Statutory Rape - Non forcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.

Last Updated January 3, 2008