2019 Code of Alabama
Title 13A - Criminal Code.
Chapter 6 - Offenses Involving Danger to the Person.
Article 4A - Sexual Offenses by School Employees Involving a Student.
Section 13A-6-82 - School employee having sexual contact with a student under the age of 19 years.
(a) A person commits the crime of a school employee having sexual contact with a student under the age of 19 years if he or she is a school employee and engages in sexual contact, as defined by Section 13A-6-60(3), with a student, regardless of whether the student is male or female. Consent is not a defense to a charge under this section. The crime of a school employee having sexual contact with a student is a Class C felony.
(b) A person commits the crime of a school employee soliciting a sex act with a student under the age of 19 years if he or she is a school employee and solicits, persuades, encourages, harasses, or entices a student to engage in a sex act including, but not limited to, sexual intercourse, as defined by Section 13A-6-60(1), deviate sexual intercourse, as defined by Section 13A-6-60(2), or sexual contact, as defined by Section 13A-6-60(3). The crime of soliciting a student to perform a sex act is a Class A misdemeanor.
(Act 2010-497, p. 766, §2; Act 2016-354, p. 867, §2; Act 2018-406, §1(b)(3).)