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18 U.S.C. § 2242 — Sexual abuse
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Whoever, in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States or in a Federal prison, or in any prison, institution, or facility in which persons are held in custody by direction of or pursuant to a contract or agreement with the head of any Federal department or agency, knowingly—
(1) causes another person to engage in a sexual act by threatening or placing that other person in fear (other than by threatening or placing that other person in fear that any person will be subjected to death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping);
(2) engages in a sexual act with another person if that other person is—
(A) incapable of appraising the nature of the conduct; or
(B) physically incapable of declining participation in, or communicating unwillingness to engage in, that sexual act; or
(3) engages in a sexual act with another person without that other person’s consent, to include doing so through coercion;
or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for any term of years or for life.
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Whoever, in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States or in a Federal prison, or in any prison, institution, or facility in which persons are held in custody by direction of or pursuant to a contract or agreement with the head of any Federal department or agency, knowingly—
(1) causes another person to engage in a sexual act by threatening or placing that other person in fear (other than by threatening or placing that other person in fear that any person will be subjected to death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping);
(2) engages in a sexual act with another person if that other person is—
(A) incapable of appraising the nature of the conduct; or
(B) physically incapable of declining participation in, or communicating unwillingness to engage in, that sexual act; or
(3) engages in a sexual act with another person without that other person’s consent, to include doing so through coercion;
or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for any term of years or for life.
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Commercial pornographic content** — The term “commercial pornographic content” means any material that is subject to the record keeping requirements under [section 2257 of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2257&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Consent** — The term “consent” means an affirmative, conscious, and voluntary authorization made by the individual free from force, fraud, misrepresentation, or coercion.
(3) **Depicted individual** — The term “depicted individual” means an individual whose body appears in whole or in part in an intimate visual depiction and who is identifiable by virtue of the person’s face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic, such as a unique birthmark or other recognizable feature, or from information displayed in connection with the visual depiction.
(4) **Disclose** — The term “disclose” means to transfer, publish, distribute, or make accessible.
(5) **Intimate visual depiction** — The term “intimate visual depiction”—
(A) means a visual depiction, as that term is defined in [section 2256(5) of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2256/5&num=0&edition=prelim), that depicts—
(i) the uncovered genitals, pubic area, anus, or post-pubescent female nipple of an identifiable individual; or
(ii) the display or transfer of bodily sexual fluids—
(I) on to any part of the body of an identifiable individual;
(II) from the body of an identifiable individual; or
(III) an identifiable individual engaging in sexually explicit conduct and 11 So in original.
(B) includes any visual depictions described in subparagraph (A) produced while the identifiable individual wa
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**(a) Sexual Conduct in Circumstances Where Sexual Acts Are Punished by This Chapter.—** Whoever, in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States or in a Federal prison, or in any prison, institution, or facility in which persons are held in custody by direction of or pursuant to a contract or agreement with the head of any Federal department or agency, knowingly engages in or causes sexual contact with or by another person, if so to do would violate—
(1) subsection (a) or (b) of [section 2241 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2241&num=0&edition=prelim) had the sexual contact been a sexual act, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than ten years, or both;
(2) [section 2242 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2242&num=0&edition=prelim) had the sexual contact been a sexual act, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than three years, or both;
(3) subsection (a) of [section 2243 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2243&num=0&edition=prelim) had the sexual contact been a sexual act, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than two years, or both;
(4) subsection (b) of [section 2243 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2243&num=0&edition=prelim) had the sexual contact been a sexual act, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than two years, or both;
(5) subsection (c) of [section 2241 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section2241&num=0&edition=prelim) had the sexual contact been a sexual act, shall be fined under this titl
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 2242
(c) WITH CHILDREN.—Whoever crosses a State
line with intent to engage in a sexual act with
a person who has not attained the age of 12
years, or in the special maritime and territorial
jurisdiction of the United States or in a Federal
prison, or in any prison, institution, or facility
in which persons are held in custody by direc-
tion of or pursuant to a contract or agreement
with the head of any Federal department or
agency, knowingly engages in a sexual act with
another person who has not attained the age of
12 years, or knowingly engages in a sexual act
under the circumstances described in sub-
sections (a) and (b) with another person who has
attained the age of 12 years but has not attained
the age of 16 years (and is at least 4 years young-
er than the person so engaging), or attempts to
do so, shall be fined under this title and impris-
oned for not less than 30 years or for life. If the
defendant has previously been convicted of an-
other Federal offense under this subsection, or
of a State offense or an offense under the Uni-
form Code of Military Justice that would have
been an offense under any such provision had
the offense occurred in a Federal prison, unless
the death penalty is imposed, the defendant
shall be sentenced to life in prison.
(d) STATE OF MIND PROOF REQUIREMENT.—In a
prosecution under subsection (c) of this section,
the Government need not prove that the defend-
ant knew that the other person engaging in the
sexual act had not attained the age of 12 years.
(Added Pub. L. 99–646, § 87(b), Nov. 10, 1986, 100
Stat. 3620, and Pub. L. 99–654, § 2, Nov. 14, 1986,
100 Stat. 3660; amended Pub. L. 103–322, title
XXXIII, § 330021(1), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2150;
Pub.
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