Child molestation in the third degree.
Known as the Washington Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 9–9 (401 sections).
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case United States v. Martinez (2015)
Most recently applied in 195 Wash. 2d 91 - State v. Brooks (January 2020)
2021 c 142 s 7; 1994 c 271 s 305; 1988 c 145 s 7.
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 child molestation in the third degree when the person has, or knowingly causes another person under the age of eighteen to have, sexual contact with another who is at least fourteen years old but less than sixteen years old and the perpetrator is at least forty-eight months older than the victim.
(2) Child molestation in the third degree is a class C felony.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.