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Comprehensive Overview of Sexual Offenses Definitions and Legal Parameters

This document provides a detailed clarification of definitions related to sexual offenses, including terms such as "complainant," "deviate sexual intercourse," and "forcible compulsion." It outlines the legal framework surrounding these offenses, including the age of consent, statutory sexual assault, and the roles of evidence and victim testimony in legal proceedings. The definitions set the groundwork for understanding various types of sexual offenses, penalties for violations, and the rights of victims under the law.

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Comprehensive Overview of Sexual Offenses Definitions and Legal Parameters

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  1. SEXUAL OFFENSES CHAPTER # 31

  2. Definitions: 3101 • Complainant - alleged victim of a crime • Deviate sexual intercourse - per os / per anus; human or animal; foreign object, any purpose other than legiti-mate medical use

  3. Definitions • Forcible compulsion - physical, psychological, moral, emotional; express / implied; before, during, or after intercourse • Foreign object - not part of human body

  4. Definitions • Indecent contact - touching sexual or intimate body parts for gratification or arousal (actor touching or being touched) • Serious bodily injury – see chapter #23 • Sexual intercourse - per os / per anus, slight penetration, emission not required

  5. Mistake as to Age: 3102 • Criminality age under 14 • Prove over 14 preponderance of evidence used

  6. Evidence of victim’s sexual conduct: 3104 • Can’t introduce the following unless with defendant &filed in writing with the court prior to trial

  7. Evidence of victim’s sexual contact • 1. Past sexual conduct • 2. Opinion evidence of past sexual conduct • 3. Reputation evidence of past sexual conduct

  8. Prompt complaint: 3105 • Not required for prosecution • Loss of evidence

  9. Testimony of Victims: 3106 Victim’s must be considered same as other witnesses

  10. Resistance: 3107 • Not required • Defendant can introduce evidence

  11. Rape: 3121 • Sexual intercourse with complainant when:

  12. Rape • 1. By forcible compulsion • 2. Threat of force that would prevent resistance in reasonable • 3.Unconscious victim • 4. Victim impaired by drugs or intoxicants • 5. mental disability rendering consent im-possible • All F-1

  13. Rape • Additional penalty maximum 10 years / $100,000 if intoxicant given without notice • Rape of a child:sexual intercourse of child under age 13: life not to exceed 40 years • Rape of a child with serious bodily injury:sexual intercourse with child under 13 who suffers s.b.i.: life

  14. Statutory Sexual Assault: 3122.1 Sexual intercoursewith victimunder age 16 and def. 4 or F - 2

  15. Statutory Sexual Assault More years older than victim and not married

  16. Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse: 3123 • F-1 • Engaging in deviant sexual intercourse with victim

  17. Involuntary Deviant Sexual Intercourse • When: • 1 - 5 see rape • 6. Who is less than age 16 and def. 4 or more years older and not married • F-1 • IDSI with child under 13:life not to exceed 40 years • IDSI with child under 13 & serious bodily injury: life

  18. Sexual Assault: 3124.1 • F-2 • Engaging insexual or deviant sexual intercoursewith a non-

  19. Sexual Assault • Consenting partner • DATE RAPE • ONLY NEED TO INDICATE NO NOT NECESSARILY SAY NOT • Used whereconsentan issue

  20. Institutional Sexual Assault: 3124.2 • Prohibits employee of dept. of corrections from sexual inter-course, deviant sexual intercourse or indecent contact with inmate • F-3

  21. Aggravated Indecent Assault: 3125 • Offense: person engages inpenetration, slight, genitals,anus, with abody partfor any reason except: legal / medical • 1. Without consent

  22. Aggravated Indecent Assault • 2.Forcible compulsion • 3.Threatof forcible compulsion • 4.Unconsciousor unaware • 5. Impairedby intoxicants • 6.Mentally disabled/ consent • 7.Victim less than13 • 8. Victim under16 & actor 4or more years older • F-2

  23. Aggravated Indecent Assault Aggravated indecent assault of a child including all the above: F-1

  24. Indecent Assault: 3126 • Offense: indecent contact withvictim or havingvictim make contact with defendant • 1. Without consent • 2. Forcible compulsion

  25. Indecent Assault • 3.Threatof forcible compulsion • 4. Victimunconscious / unaware • 5. Victimimpairedby intoxicant

  26. Indecent Assault • 6. Victimmentally disabled • 7. Victim less than age13 • 8. Victim less than16, def. 4or more years older, not married • M-2; #7: M-1

  27. Indecent Exposure: 3127 • Exposing genitals inpublic place,offensive, M-2 unless under age 16: M-1

  28. Sexual Intercourse with Animal: 3129 M-2

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