Rape of a child in the first degree.
Known as the Washington Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 9–9 (401 sections).
Applied in 133 court decisions — leading case 135 Wash. 2d 326 - State v. Riles (1998)
Most recently applied in State Of Washington, V. Patrick Michael Callahan (May 2025)
2021 c 142 s 2; 1988 c 145 s 2.
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 is guilty of rape of a child in the first degree when the person has sexual intercourse with another who is less than twelve years old and the perpetrator is at least twenty-four months older than the victim.
(2) Rape of a child in the first degree is a class A felony.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.