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| 1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sections 11-11 and 12-12 as follows:
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| 6 | (720 ILCS 5/11-11) (from Ch. 38, par. 11-11)
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| 7 | Sec. 11-11. Sexual Relations Within Families. (a) A
person | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | commits sexual relations within families if he or she:
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| 9 | (1) Commits an act of sexual penetration as defined in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | Section 12-12
of this Code; and
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| 11 | (2) The person knows that he or she is related to the other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | person as follows:
(i) Brother or sister, either of the whole | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | blood or the half blood;
or (ii) Father or mother, when the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | child, regardless of
legitimacy and regardless of whether the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | child was of the
whole blood or half-blood or was adopted, was
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| 16 | 18 years of age or over when the act was committed; or (iii) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | Stepfather
or stepmother, when the stepchild was 18 years of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | age or over when the act
was committed; or (iv) Uncle or aunt, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | when the nephew or niece, regardless of
legitimacy and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | regardless of whether the nephew or niece was of the whole | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | blood or half-blood or was adopted, was 18 years of age or over | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | when the act was committed.
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| 23 | (b) Sentence. Sexual relations within families
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| 1 | felony.
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| 2 | (Source: P.A. 84-1280.)
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| 3 | (720 ILCS 5/12-12) (from Ch. 38, par. 12-12)
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| 4 | Sec. 12-12. Definitions. For the purposes of Sections 12-13 | ||||||
| 5 | through
12-18 of this Code, the terms used in these Sections | ||||||
| 6 | shall have the following
meanings ascribed to them:
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| 7 | (a) "Accused" means a person accused of an offense | ||||||
| 8 | prohibited by Sections
12-13, 12-14, 12-15 or 12-16 of this | ||||||
| 9 | Code or a person for whose conduct
the accused is legally | ||||||
| 10 | responsible under Article 5 of this Code.
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| 11 | (b) "Bodily harm" means physical harm, and includes, but is | ||||||
| 12 | not limited
to, sexually transmitted disease, pregnancy and | ||||||
| 13 | impotence.
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| 14 | (c) "Family member" means a parent, grandparent, uncle, | ||||||
| 15 | aunt, or
child, whether by whole blood, half-blood or adoption | ||||||
| 16 | and
includes a step-grandparent, step-parent or step-child.
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| 17 | "Family member" also means, where the victim is a child under | ||||||
| 18 | 18 years of
age, an accused who has
resided in the household | ||||||
| 19 | with such child continuously for at least one year.
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| 20 | (d) "Force or threat of force" means the use of force
or | ||||||
| 21 | violence, or the threat of force or violence, including but
not | ||||||
| 22 | limited to the following situations:
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| 23 | (1) when the accused threatens to use force or violence | ||||||
| 24 | on the
victim or on any other person, and the victim under | ||||||
| 25 | the circumstances
reasonably believed that the accused had | ||||||
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| 1 | the ability to execute that threat; or
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| 2 | (2) when the accused has overcome the victim by use of | ||||||
| 3 | superior strength
or size, physical restraint or physical | ||||||
| 4 | confinement.
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| 5 | (e) "Sexual conduct" means any intentional or knowing | ||||||
| 6 | touching or fondling
by the victim or the accused, either | ||||||
| 7 | directly or through clothing, of the
sex organs, anus or breast | ||||||
| 8 | of the victim or the accused, or any part of
the body of a child | ||||||
| 9 | under 13 years of age, or any transfer or transmission of
semen | ||||||
| 10 | by the accused upon any part of the clothed or unclothed body | ||||||
| 11 | of the
victim, for the purpose of sexual
gratification or | ||||||
| 12 | arousal of the victim or the accused.
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| 13 | (f) "Sexual penetration" means any contact, however | ||||||
| 14 | slight, between the
sex organ or anus of one person by an | ||||||
| 15 | object, the sex organ,
mouth or anus of another person,
or any | ||||||
| 16 | intrusion, however slight, of any part of the body of one | ||||||
| 17 | person or
of any animal or object into the sex organ or anus of | ||||||
| 18 | another person,
including but not limited to cunnilingus, | ||||||
| 19 | fellatio or anal penetration.
Evidence of emission of semen is | ||||||
| 20 | not required to prove sexual penetration.
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| 21 | (g) "Victim" means a person alleging to have been subjected | ||||||
| 22 | to an offense
prohibited by Sections 12-13, 12-14, 12-15 or | ||||||
| 23 | 12-16 of this Code.
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| 24 | (Source: P.A. 91-116, eff. 1-1-00.)
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