2010 New Hampshire Statutes
TITLE LXII CRIMINAL CODE
CHAPTER 632-A SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RELATED OFFENSES
Section 632-A:3 Felonious Sexual Assault.

632-A:3 Felonious Sexual Assault. – A person is guilty of a class B felony if such person:
    I. Subjects a person to sexual contact and causes serious personal injury to the victim under any of the circumstances named in RSA 632-A:2; or
    II. Engages in sexual penetration with a person, other than his legal spouse, who is 13 years of age or older and under 16 years of age where the age difference between the actor and the other person is 4 years or more; or
    III. Engages in sexual contact with a person other than his legal spouse who is under 13 years of age.
    IV. (a) Engages in sexual contact with the person, or causes the person to engage in sexual contact on himself or herself in the presence of the actor, when the actor is in a position of authority over the person and uses that authority to coerce the victim to submit under any of the following circumstances:
          (1) When the actor has direct supervisory or disciplinary authority over the victim by virtue of the victim being incarcerated in a correctional institution, the secure psychiatric unit, or juvenile detention facility where the actor is employed; or
          (2) When the actor is a probation or parole officer or a juvenile probation and parole officer who has direct supervisory or disciplinary authority over the victim while the victim is on parole or probation or under juvenile probation.
       (b) Consent of the victim under any of the circumstances set forth in this paragraph shall not be considered a defense.
       (c) For the purpose of this paragraph, "sexual contact'' means the intentional touching of the person's sexual or intimate parts, including genitalia, anus, breasts, and buttocks, where such contact, or the causing of such contact, can reasonably be construed as being for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification of the person in the position of authority, or the humiliation of the person being touched.

Source. 1975, 302:1. 1981, 415:4. 1985, 228:4. 1997, 220:3. 2003, 226:3, 4. 2006, 162:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2007. 2008, 334:9, eff. Jan. 1, 2009. 2010, 223:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.