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2012 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 11 - Criminal Offenses
Chapter 11-20 - Graves and Corpses
Chapter 11-20-1.2 - Necrophilia.
RI Gen L § 11-20-1.2 (2012) What's This?
§ 11-20-1.2 Necrophilia. – Any person who performs the act of first degree sexual assault upon a dead human body shall be guilty of the crime of necrophilia. Any person convicted of the crime of necrophilia shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten (10) years and may be fined in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
History of Section.
(P.L. 1998, ch. 433, § 1.)
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