The list of federal sex crimes is extensive, so we have listed only some of them below:
Sex Offenses-Forcible: 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.
a. Forcible Rape - is the carnal knowledge of a person, forcibly and/or against the person's will; or not forcibly or against the person's 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).
b. Forcible Sodomy - is oral or anal sexual intercourse with another person, forcibly and/or against that person's will; or not forcibly and/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.
c. Sexual Assault With An Object - is 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 against the person's will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity.
d. Forcible Fondling - is the touching of the private parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, forcibly and/or against that person's will; or, not forcibly and/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.
Sex Offenses-Non-Forcible: Unlawful, non-forcible sexual intercourse (limited to Incest and Statutory Rape)
a. Incest - is the non-forcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
b. Statutory Rape - is the non-forcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent. |