Sexual battery
Sec. 8. (a) A person who, with intent to arouse or satisfy the
person's own sexual desires or the sexual desires of another person,
touches another person when that person is:
(1) compelled to submit to the touching by force or the
imminent threat of force; or
(2) so mentally disabled or deficient that consent to the
touching cannot be given;
commits sexual battery, a Class D felony.
(b) An offense described in subsection (a) is a Class C felony if:
(1) it is committed by using or threatening the use of deadly
force;
(2) it is committed while armed with a deadly weapon; or
(3) the commission of the offense is facilitated by furnishing the
victim, without the victim's knowledge, with a drug (as defined
in IC 16-42-19-2(1)) or a controlled substance (as defined in
IC 35-48-1-9) or knowing that the victim was furnished with the
drug or controlled substance without the victim's knowledge.
As added by P.L.322-1987, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.31-1998, SEC.7.
Last modified: May 24, 2006