Statutory rape, second degree, penalty
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case United States v. Sims (2005)
Most recently applied in United States v. Rangel-Castaneda (March 2013)
Effective: 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories, see footnote; (L. 1994 S.B. 693, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)
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.
1. A person commits the offense of statutory rape in the second degree if being twenty-one years of age or older, he or she has sexual intercourse with another person who is less than seventeen years of age.
2. The offense of statutory rape in the second degree is a class D felony.
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.