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90_SB0424

      720 ILCS 5/12-12          from Ch. 38, par. 12-12
      720 ILCS 5/12-14.2 new
          Amends the Criminal Code of 1961.  Creates the offense of
      custodial  sexual  assault.   Prohibits  a  person  who   has
      supervisory  or  disciplinary  authority over a prisoner from
      engaging in sexual  penetration  or  sexual  conduct  with  a
      prisoner.   Penalty  is  a Class 3 felony.  Provides that the
      consent of the prisoner is not a defense to a prosecution for
      custodial sexual assault.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code  of  1961  by  changing
 2    Section 12-12 and adding Section 12-14.2.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Criminal  Code  of  1961  is  amended  by
 6    changing Section 12-12 and adding Section 12-14.2 as follows:
 7        (720 ILCS 5/12-12) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-12)
 8        Sec.  12-12.   Definitions.  For the purposes of Sections
 9    12-13 through 12-18 of this Code, the  terms  used  in  these
10    Sections shall have the following meanings ascribed to them:
11        (a)  "Accused"  means  a  person  accused  of  an offense
12    prohibited by Sections 12-13, 12-14, 12-14.1, 12-14.2,  12-15
13    or  12-16  of  this  Code  or  a person for whose conduct the
14    accused is legally responsible under Article 5 of this Code.
15        (b)  "Bodily harm" means physical harm, and includes, but
16    is not limited to, sexually  transmitted  disease,  pregnancy
17    and impotence.
18        (c)  "Family  member"  means  a  parent,  grandparent, or
19    child, whether by whole blood,  half-blood  or  adoption  and
20    includes   a  step-grandparent,  step-parent  or  step-child.
21    "Family member" also means, where the victim is a child under
22    18 years of age, an accused who has resided in the  household
23    with such child continuously for at least one year.
24        (d)  "Force or threat of force" means the use of force or
25    violence,  or  the threat of force or violence, including but
26    not limited to the following situations:
27             (1)  when the accused  threatens  to  use  force  or
28        violence  on  the  victim or on any other person, and the
29        victim under the circumstances reasonably  believed  that
30        the accused had the ability to execute that threat; or
31             (2)  when the accused has overcome the victim by use
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 1        of  superior  strength  or  size,  physical  restraint or
 2        physical confinement.
 3        (e)  "Sexual conduct" means any  intentional  or  knowing
 4    touching  or  fondling  by  the victim or the accused, either
 5    directly or through clothing, of  the  sex  organs,  anus  or
 6    breast  of the victim or the accused, or any part of the body
 7    of a child under 13 years of age, for the purpose  of  sexual
 8    gratification or arousal of the victim or the accused.
 9        (f)  "Sexual  penetration"  means  any  contact,  however
10    slight,  between  the  sex  organ or anus of one person by an
11    object, the sex organ, mouth or anus of  another  person,  or
12    any intrusion, however slight, of any part of the body of one
13    person  or of any animal or object into the sex organ or anus
14    of another person, including but not limited to  cunnilingus,
15    fellatio  or anal penetration.  Evidence of emission of semen
16    is not required to prove sexual penetration.
17        (g)  "Victim"  means  a  person  alleging  to  have  been
18    subjected to an offense prohibited by Sections 12-13,  12-14,
19    12-14.1, 12-14.2, 12-15 or 12-16 of this Code.
20    (Source: P.A. 88-167.)
21        (720 ILCS 5/12-14.2 new)
22        Sec. 12-14.2.  Custodial sexual assault.
23        (a)  The accused commits custodial sexual assault when he
24    or she commits an act of sexual penetration or sexual conduct
25    with  a  victim  who is in the custody of a penal institution
26    and the accused has  supervisory  or  disciplinary  authority
27    over the victim.
28        (b)  Sentence.   Custodial  sexual  assault  is a Class 3
29    felony.
30        (c)  Consent  of  the  victim  is  not  a  defense  to  a
31    prosecution for custodial sexual assault.

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