566.100. Sexual abuse, penalties. - Missouri Statutes

Sexual abuse, penalties.

566.100. 1. A person commits the crime of sexual abuse ifhe subjects another person to sexual contact by the use offorcible compulsion.

2. Sexual abuse is a class C felony unless in the coursethereof the actor inflicts serious physical injury or displays adeadly weapon or dangerous instrument in a threatening manner orsubjects the victim to sexual contact with more than one personor the victim is less than fourteen years of age, in which casethe crime is a class B felony.

(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1370, et al., A.L. 1991 H.B. 566, A.L. 1994 S.B. 693)

Effective 1-1-95

CROSS REFERENCE:

Child abuse, definitions, actions for civil damages may be brought, when, RSMo 537.046

(1981) Offenses of sexual abuse in the first, second, and third degree may be, but are not necessarily, lesser included offenses under sodomy statute and deviate sexual assault statutes. State v. Gibson (Mo.App.), 623 S.W.2d 93.