Rape of a child in the second degree.
Known as the Washington Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 9–9 (401 sections).
Applied in 58 court decisions — leading case United States v. Valencia-Barragan (2010)
Most recently applied in State Of Washington, Respondent/cross-appellant V. Benjamin Adam Stott, Appellant/cross-respondent (February 2024)
2021 c 142 s 3; 1990 c 3 s 903; 1988 c 145 s 3.
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 second degree when the person has sexual intercourse with another who is at least twelve years old but less than fourteen years old and the perpetrator is at least thirty-six months older than the victim.
(2) Rape of a child in the second 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.