Federal · Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
18 U.S.C. § 2242: Sexual abuse
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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); incapable of appraising the nature of the conduct; or physically incapable of declining participation in, or communicating unwillingness to engage in, that sexual act; or engages in a sexual act with another person without that other person’s consent, to include doing so through coercion;
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