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[CITE: 18USC2242]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                       CHAPTER 109A--SEXUAL ABUSE
 
Sec. 2242. Sexual abuse

    Whoever, in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the 
United States or in a Federal prison, knowingly--
        (1) 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); 
    or
        (2) engages in a sexual act with another person if that other 
    person is--
            (A) incapable of appraising the nature of the conduct; or
            (B) physically incapable of declining participation in, or 
        communicating unwillingness to engage in, that sexual act;

or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not 
more than 20 years, or both.

(Added Pub. L. 99-646, Sec. 87(b), Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3621, and 
Pub. L. 99-654, Sec. 2, Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3661; amended Pub. L. 
103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330021(1), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2150.)

                          Codification

    Pub. L. 99-646 and Pub. L. 99-654 added identical sections 2242.


                               Amendments

    1994--Par. (1). Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``kidnapping'' for 
``kidnaping''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2119, 2244, 2255, 3486, 3559 
of this title; title 42 sections 14071, 14135a.