statutory rape
Noun
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Noun
statutory rape
- (legal) An illegal act of sexual intercourse by an adult with a person under the legal age of consent for sex, or with another adult who is not able to consent because of intellectual disability.
- 1999, Raneta Lawson Mack, A Layperson's Guide to Criminal Law, Greenwood Publishing Group (ISBN 9780313305566), page 72 ↗:
- Historically, statutory rape laws were enacted to protect the chastity and morality of young women. These statutes made it a crime for a man to have sexual intercourse with a young woman under a certain age (usually eighteen), even if the young woman consented to the act. (Today of, course, statuory rape provisions protect minors of both genders.)
- 1999, Raneta Lawson Mack, A Layperson's Guide to Criminal Law, Greenwood Publishing Group (ISBN 9780313305566), page 72 ↗:
- Portuguese: estupro presumido
- Spanish: estupro
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