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The Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are the official compilation of session laws enacted by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. [1] Pennsylvania is undertaking its first official codification process. [2] [3] It is published by the Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau [4] (PALRB or LRB). [5] Volumes of Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes ...
First Degree Statutory Rape N.C. Gen. Stat. Ann. § 14-27.24 LWOP, life with parole or a prison term of at least 25 years (LWP and 25 years are only options if the defendant was under 18) After serving his sentence, the convict shall be under lifelong satellite-based monitoring Statutory Rape of a Person Who Is 15 Years of Age or Younger
By making it illegal for an adult to have sex with a minor, statutory rape laws aim to give the minor some protection against adults in a position of power over the youth. [3] Another argument presented in defence of statutory rape laws relates to the difficulty in prosecuting rape (against a victim of any age) in the courtroom.
Kansas law allowing for opposite-sex statutory rape to be punished less severely than same-sex statutory rape is unconstitutional. Martin v. Ziherl, 607 S.E.2d 367 (Va. 2005). The Supreme Court of Virginia rules that the state criminal prohibition of sex between unmarried individuals (fornication) is unconstitutional in light of Lawrence v. Texas.
Rape was formerly a common law offence, with a statutory penalty first given by the Offences against the Person Act 1861, and given a statutory definition by the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976. This has itself been superseded by the Sexual Offences Act 2003. Rape is currently defined, in section 1 of that act, as follows: [87]
Three high school students in Florida are breaking ground by creating straws that will be able to detect date rape drugs.
Roofies are known as “date rape” drugs because they leave people in a sedated and incapacitated state, which can make them more vulnerable to being sexual assault by another individual.
Drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) is a sexual assault (rape or otherwise) carried out on a person after the person has become intoxicated due to being under the influence of any mind-altering substances, such as having consumed alcohol or been intentionally administered another date rape drug. The rape form of DFSA is also known as ...