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Idaho Sexual Battery Of A Minor

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Sexual Battery On A Minor

If you have been arrested and charged with Sexual Battery On A Minor, it is important that you understand the charges against you and what your legal rights are. Call me to discuss your case, your options, and the potential outcomes.

Idaho sex crime laws are severe. Sexual Battery carries the possibility of serious and life-long consequences! You have too much on the line to take on the criminal justice system on your own!

What is Sexual Battery of A Minor?

Generally, sexual battery of a minor occurs when any person 5 years or more older, has contact with a minor who is 16 or 17 years of age, with the intent of arousing or gratifying lust, passion, or sexual desires.

More specifically, under Idaho Code §18-1508A, 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
(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.
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What is the Punishment for Sexual Battery of A Minor?

 A violation of subsection (a) above is punishable by up to life in prison. Any other violation is punishable by up to 25-years in prison.

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If you are charged with a sex crime, your freedom and your future are on the line!

Let us fight to protect your rights and keep you out of prison! 

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