Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-504

Aggravated sexual battery

Applied in 37 court decisions — leading case 80 Cal. App. 4th 170 - Hatch v. Superior Court (2000)

Most recently applied in 260 So. 3d 1247 - State v. Aguliar-Benitez (December 2018)

Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 1993, ch. 289, § 1.

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(1) Aggravated sexual battery is unlawful sexual contact with a victim by the defendant or the defendant by a victim accompanied by any of the following circumstances: Force or coercion is used to accomplish the act and the defendant is armed with a weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead the victim reasonably to believe it to be a weapon;

(2) The defendant causes bodily injury to the victim;

(3) The defendant is aided or abetted by one (1) or more other persons; and Force or coercion is used to accomplish the act; or

(4) The defendant knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective, mentally incapacitated or physically helpless; or

(5) The victim is less than thirteen (13) years of age.

(6) Aggravated sexual battery is a Class B felony.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.