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statutory rape en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • 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, page 72:

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Relateds

jailbait · molest · rape

Translations (14)

fr délit d'atteinte sexuelle sur mineurs (intercourse with a minor) · hu fiatalkorú sérelmére elkövetett nemi erőszak (intercourse with a minor) · fi lapsenraiskaus (intercourse with a minor) · pl gwałt w sensie prawnym (intercourse with a minor) · ar مُجَامَعَة قَاصِر (intercourse with a minor) · cmn 法定強姦 /法定强奸 (intercourse with a minor) · el αποπλάνηση ανηλίκου (intercourse with a minor) · bg блудство (intercourse with a minor) · fi törkeä seksuaalinen hyväksikäyttö (intercourse with a minor) · es estupro (intercourse with a minor) · pt estupro presumido (intercourse with a minor) · sv samlag med minderårig (intercourse with a minor) · fi törkeä lapsen seksuaalinen hyväksikäyttö (intercourse with a minor) · nl sex met minderjarige (intercourse with a minor)