D.C. Code § 22-3013

Current through codified legislation effective October 30, 2024

Section 22-3013 - First degree sexual abuse of a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner.

Any staff member, employee, contract employee, consultant, or volunteer of a law enforcement agency or at a hospital, treatment facility, law enforcement facility, detention or correctional facility, group home, or other institution; anyone who is an ambulance driver or attendant, bus driver or attendant, or person who participates in the transportation of a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner to and from such institutions; or any official custodian of a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner, who engages in a sexual act with a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner, or causes a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner to engage in or submit to a sexual act shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in section 101 of the Criminal Fine Proportionality Amendment Act of 2012, effective June 11, 2013 (D.C. Law 19-317; D.C. Official Code § 22-3571.01) , or incarcerated for no more than 10 years, or both.

D.C. Code § 22-3013

Amended by D.C. Law 24-341,§ 109, 69 DCR 014698, eff. 4/6/2023.

May 23, 1995, D.C. Law 10-257, § 212, 42 DCR 53; May 17, 1996, D.C. Law 11-119, § 6(a), 43 DCR 528; Apr. 24, 2007, D.C. Law 16-306, § 216(g), 53 DCR 8610; June 11, 2013, D.C. Law 19-317, § 232(o), 60 DCR 2064.

Applicability of D.C. Law 19-317: Section 401 of D.C. Law 19-317 provided that the act shall apply only to offenses committed on or after June 11, 2013.