statutory rape

English

Noun

statutory rape (countable and uncountable, plural statutory rapes)

1. (law) 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.
   • 1999, Raneta Lawson Mack, A Layperson's Guide to Criminal Law, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 72:

     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.)

Usage notes

Technically, the term statutory rape is not usually used by governments or states in their laws. It is a term used to simply describe the laws against adults having sex with people younger than the government's legal age for sex or other adults who are intellectually disabled.

Translations

intercourse with a minor

• Arabic: مُجَامَعَة قَاصِر (mujāmaʕa(t) qāṣir)
• Bulgarian: блудство (bg) n (bludstvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法定強姦／法定强奸 (fǎdìng qiángjiān)

• Dutch: sex met minderjarige
• Finnish: lapsenraiskaus (fi) (under the legal age of consent; since 2023), törkeä lapsen seksuaalinen hyväksikäyttö (under the legal age of consent; prior to 2023); törkeä seksuaalinen hyväksikäyttö (with an adult who is not able to consent)
• French: délit d’atteinte sexuelle sur mineurs
• Hungarian: fiatalkorú sérelmére elkövetett nemi erőszak
• Portuguese: estupro presumido m
• Spanish: estupro (es) m
• Swedish: samlag med minderårig

See also

• rape
• jailbait
• molest

Further reading

• statutory rape on Wikipedia.Wikipedia