Full question:
Is it illegal for a 16 year old male to date and have sexual a 20 year old female
- Category: Criminal
- Subcategory: Statutory Rape
- Date:
- State: Kentucky
Answer:
The age of consent is 16 in Kentucky if the other person is 21 or older.510.060 Rape in the third degree.
(1) A person is guilty of rape in the third degree when:
(a) He or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person who is incapable
of consent because he or she is an individual with an intellectual disability;
(b) Being twenty-one (21) years old or more, he or she engages in sexual
intercourse with another person less than sixteen (16) years old;
(c) Being twenty-one (21) years old or more, he or she engages in sexual
intercourse with another person less than eighteen (18) years old and for
whom he or she provides a foster family home as defined in KRS 600.020;
(d) Being a person in a position of authority or position of special trust, as defined
in KRS 532.045, he or she engages in sexual intercourse with a minor under
eighteen (18) years old with whom he or she comes into contact as a result of
that position; or
(e) Being a jailer, or an employee, contractor, vendor, or volunteer of the
Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, or a detention
facility as defined in KRS 520.010, or of an entity under contract with either
department or a detention facility for the custody, supervision, evaluation, or
treatment of offenders, he or she subjects a person who he or she knows is
incarcerated, supervised, evaluated, or treated by the Department of
Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, detention facility, or contracting
entity, to sexual intercourse.
(2) Rape in the third degree is a Class D felony
510.050 Rape in the second degree.
(1) A person is guilty of rape in the second degree when:
(a) Being eighteen (18) years old or more, he engages in sexual intercourse with
another person less than fourteen (14) years old; or
(b) He engages in sexual intercourse with another person who is mentally
incapacitated.
(2) Rape in the second degree is a Class C felony.
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