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In California, marital rape was recognized as a crime by Section 262 of California's Penal Code in 1979. [30] However, there are separate criminal offenses for non-spousal rape (Section 261) and for spousal rape (Section 262); [31] the latter was treated as a less serious crime until the enactment of 2021 California Assembly Bill 1171. [30]
Texas: In the Texas Penal Code, Section 22.011 (a) defines sexual assault as an actor performing various forms of sexual penetration of another person's body without that person's consent. Section 22.011 (b) implies that a person's consent is always present, except in 12 specified circumstances that render a person incapable of consenting, such ...
Argentina: Two laws criminalise rape, including spousal rape; both are coercion-based. Article 2 of Law 25.087 (1999) describes various 'crimes against sexual integrity' as 'Anyone who sexually abuses a person of either sex when the person is under the age of thirteen or when there is violence, threat, coercive or intimidating abuse of a ...
Rape of a spouse Cal. Penal Code §262, Cal. Penal Code §264(a) 3, 6 or 8 years Rape of a spouse when victim under 14 Cal. Penal Code §262, Cal. Penal Code §264(c)(1) 9, 11 or 13 years Rape of a spouse when victim between 14 and 18 Cal. Penal Code §262, Cal. Penal Code §264(c)(2) 7, 9 or 11 years Sodomy Cal. Penal Code §286
A new Texas abortion law has no exception for rape. Supporters say the state can arrest more rapists. But Texas solves fewer cases than the U.S. average.
A marry-your-rapist law, marry-the-rapist law, or rape-marriage law is a rule of rape law in a jurisdiction under which a man who commits rape, sexual assault, statutory rape, abduction or other similar act is exonerated if he marries his female victim, or in some jurisdictions at least offers to marry her. The "marry-your-rapist" law is a ...
“[States] have passed laws without any exceptions for when the woman is the victim of rape or incest. Under those laws, a woman will have to bear her rapist’s child or a young girl her father ...
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