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Aggravated sexual touching

Offence title:

 

Aggravated sexual touching

Act:

 

61KD Crimes Act (NSW)

Offence:

A person who without the consent of another and knowing that the alleged other person does not consent, and in circumstances of aggravation intentionally:

(a)   sexually touches the alleged victim, or

(b)   incites the alleged victim to sexually touch the alleged offender, or

(c)    incites a third person to sexually touch the alleged victim, or

(d)   incites the alleged victim to sexually touch a third person,

commits an offence.

[NOTE: circumstances of aggravation mean circumstances in which

(a)   the alleged offender is in the company of another person or persons, or

(b)   the alleged victim is (whether generally or at the time of the commission of the offence) under the authority of the alleged offender, or

(c)    the alleged victim has a serious physical disability, or

(d)   the alleged victim has a cognitive impairment.]

 

Penalty:

 

Imprisonment for 7 years.

Summary/Indictable/mixed:

 

Mixed

 

Jurisdiction:

 

Local, District or Supreme Court

 

How committed:

 

Two people on a train sit either side of another and they place their hand on the inner thigh of the other person without that person’s voluntary agreement.

   

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