2018 Iowa Code
Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 802 - LIMITATION OF CRIMINAL ACTIONS
Section 802.2 - Sexual abuse — first, second, or third degree.
802.2
Sexual abuse — first, second, or third degree.
1. An information or indictment for sexual abuse in the first, second, or third degree committed on or with a person who is under the age of eighteen years shall be found within ten years after the person upon whom the offense is committed attains eighteen years of age, or if the person against whom the information or indictment is sought is identified through the use of a DNA profile, an information or indictment shall be found within three years from the date the person is identified by the person’s DNA profile, whichever is later.
2. An information or indictment for any other sexual abuse in the first, second, or third degree shall be found within ten years after its commission, or if the person against whom the information or indictment is sought is identified through the use of a DNA profile, an information or indictment shall be found within three years from the date the person is identified by the person’s DNA profile, whichever is later.
3. As used in this section, “identified” means a person’s legal name is known and the person has been determined to be the source of the DNA.
85 Acts, ch 174, §2; 90 Acts, ch 1066, §1; 94 Acts, ch 1128, §3; 2000 Acts, ch 1027, §1; 2005 Acts, ch 158, §36; 2007 Acts, ch 126, §110
Referred to in §802.3, §802.10
