Sexual Assault involves actual or attempted sexual contact with another person without that person’s consent. Sexual assault may involve individuals who are known to one another or have an intimate and/or sexual relationship, or may involve individuals not known to one another. Sexual Assault includes:
5.3.1. Sexual Penetration without Consent: The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, when consent is not present or coercion and/or force is used.
5.3.2. Sexual Contact without Consent: The touching of the private or intimate parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, or disrobing another person when consent is not present or coercion and/or force is used. Sexual contact includes kissing, and includes contact done directly or indirectly through clothing, bodily fluids, or with an object. It also includes causing or inducing a person, when consent is not present, to similarly touch or fondle oneself or someone else.
Incest: Sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by the laws of Massachusetts.
Statutory Rape: Sexual intercourse with a person who is under the legal age of consent (16 years in Massachusetts).
