Sexual Abuse in the First Degree.
Known as the Protecting Alabama’s Elders Act
The act spans §§ 13A-6-1 to 13A-6-96 (103 sections).
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case RODRIGUEZ-RODRIGUEZ (1999)
Most recently applied in United States v. Najee Oliver (April 2020)
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §2320; Act 2006-575, p. 1512, §2; Act 2019-465, §1.)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A person commits the crime of sexual abuse in the first degree if he or she does either of the following:
(1) Subjects another person to sexual contact by forcible compulsion.
(2) Subjects another person to sexual contact who is incapable of consent by reason of being incapacitated.
(b) Sexual abuse in the first degree is a Class C felony.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.