I am 21 years old and I wanted to know if it would be illegal for me to date a 16 year old?
Full Question:
I am 21 years old and I wanted to know if it would be illegal for me to date a 16 year old?
11/09/2007 |
Category: Minors |
State: Idaho |
#11969
Answer:
The following are Idaho statutes:
18-1506. Sexual abuse of a child under the age of sixteen years. —
(1) It is a felony for any person eighteen (18) years of age or older,
with the intent to gratify the lust, passions, or sexual desire of the
actor, minor child or third party, to:
(a) solicit a minor child under the age of sixteen (16) years to
participate in a sexual act, or
(b) cause or have sexual contact with such minor child, not amounting to
lewd conduct as defined in section 18-1508, Idaho Code, or
(c) make any photographic or electronic recording of such minor child.
(2) For the purposes of this section "solicit" means any written,
verbal, or physical act which is intended to communicate to such minor
child the desire of the actor or third party to participate in a sexual
act or participate in sexual foreplay, by the means of sexual contact,
photographing or observing such minor child engaged in sexual contact.
(3) For the purposes of this section "sexual contact" means any physical
contact between such minor child and any person, which is caused by the
actor, or the actor causing such minor child to have self contact.
(4) Any person guilty of a violation of the provisions of this section
shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a period not to exceed
twenty-five (25) years.
18-1508A. Sexual battery of a minor child sixteen or seventeen years of age
— Penalty. —
(1) It is a felony for any person at least five (5) years of age older
than a minor child who is sixteen (16) or seventeen (17) years of age, who,
with the intent of arousing, appealing to or gratifying the lust, passion,
or sexual desires of such person, minor child, or third party, to:
(a) Commit any lewd or lascivious act or acts upon or with the body or
any part or any member thereof of such minor child including, but not
limited to, genital-genital contact, oral-genital contact, anal-genital
contact, oral-anal contact, manual-anal contact or manual-genital
contact, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex, or who
shall involve such minor child in any act of explicit sexual conduct as
defined in section 18-1507, Idaho Code; or
(b) Solicit such minor child to participate in a sexual act; or
(c) Cause or have sexual contact with such minor child, not amounting to
lewd conduct as defined in paragraph (a) of this subsection; or
(d) Make any photographic or electronic recording of such minor child.
(2) For the purpose of subsection (b) of this section, "solicit" means
any written, verbal or physical act which is intended to communicate to
such minor child the desire of the actor or third party to participate in a
sexual act or participate in sexual foreplay, by the means of sexual
contact, photographing or observing such minor child engaged in sexual
contact.
(3) For the purpose of this section, "sexual contact" means any physical
contact between such minor child and any person or between such minor
children which is caused by the actor, or the actor causing such minor
child to have self contact.
(4) Any person guilty of a violation of the provisions of subsection
(1)(a) of this section shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a period
not to exceed life.
(5) Any person guilty of a violation of the provisions of subsections
(1)(b), (1)(c), or (1)(d) of this section shall be imprisoned in the state
prison for a period not to exceed twenty-five (25) years.