What is the legal age to consent to have sex?
Full Question:
What is the legal age to consent to have sex?
11/24/2007 |
Category: Minors |
State: Kansas |
#12782
Answer:
The following are Kansas statutes:
21-3502. Rape.
(a) Rape is: (1) Sexual intercourse with a person who does not consent to
the sexual intercourse, under any of the following circumstances:
(A) When the victim is overcome by force or fear;
(B) when the victim is unconscious or physically powerless; or
(C) when the victim is incapable of giving consent because of mental
deficiency or disease, or when the victim is incapable of giving consent
because of the effect of any alcoholic liquor, narcotic, drug or other
substance, which condition was known by the offender or was reasonably
apparent to the offender;
(2) sexual intercourse with a child who is under 14 years of age;
(3) sexual intercourse with a victim when the victim's consent was
obtained through a knowing misrepresentation made by the offender that the
sexual intercourse was a medically or therapeutically necessary procedure;
or
(4) sexual intercourse with a victim when the victim's consent was
obtained through a knowing misrepresentation made by the offender that the
sexual intercourse was a legally required procedure within the scope of the
offender's authority.
(b) It shall be a defense to a prosecution of rape under subsection
(a)(2) that the child was married to the accused at the time of the
offense.
(c) Except as provided further, rape as described in subsection (a)(1) or
(2) is a severity level 1, person felony. Rape as described in subsection
(a)(2), when the offender is 18 years of age or older, is an off-grid
person felony. Rape as described in subsection (a)(3) or (4) is a severity
level 2, person felony.
21-3503. Indecent liberties with a child.
(a) Indecent liberties with a child is engaging in any of the following
acts with a child who is 14 or more years of age but less than 16 years of
age:
(1) Any lewd fondling or touching of the person of either the child or
the offender, done or submitted to with the intent to arouse or to satisfy
the sexual desires of either the child or the offender, or both; or
(2) soliciting the child to engage in any lewd fondling or touching of
the person of another with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual
desires of the child, the offender or another.
(b) It shall be a defense to a prosecution of indecent liberties with a
child as described in subsection (a)(1) that the child was married to the
accused at the time of the offense.
(c) Indecent liberties with a child is a severity level 5, person felony.