Section 3-307 - Sexual offense in the third degree. - Maryland Statutes

§ 3-307. Sexual offense in the third degree.
 

(a)  Prohibited.- A person may not: 

(1) (i) engage in sexual contact with another without the consent of the other; and 

(ii) 1. employ or display a dangerous weapon, or a physical object that the victim reasonably believes is a dangerous weapon; 

2. suffocate, strangle, disfigure, or inflict serious physical injury on the victim or another in the course of committing the crime; 

3. threaten, or place the victim in fear, that the victim, or an individual known to the victim, imminently will be subject to death, suffocation, strangulation, disfigurement, serious physical injury, or kidnapping; or 

4. commit the crime while aided and abetted by another; 

(2) engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is a mentally defective individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a physically helpless individual, and the person performing the act knows or reasonably should know the victim is a mentally defective individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a physically helpless individual; 

(3) engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is under the age of 14 years, and the person performing the sexual contact is at least 4 years older than the victim; 

(4) engage in a sexual act with another if the victim is 14 or 15 years old, and the person performing the sexual act is at least 21 years old; or 

(5) engage in vaginal intercourse with another if the victim is 14 or 15 years old, and the person performing the act is at least 21 years old. 

(b)  Penalty.- A person who violates this section is guilty of the felony of sexual offense in the third degree and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 10 years. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 27, § 464B; 2002, ch. 26, § 2; 2006, ch. 317.]