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statutory rapes

statutory rapes is the plural of statutory rape.

Meaning of statutory rape

Noun

statutory rape (countable and uncountable, plural statutory rapes)

  1. An illegal act of sexual intercourse by an adult with a person under the legal age of consent for sex, or with another adult who is not able to consent because of intellectual disability.
    • Historically, statutory rape laws were enacted to protect the chastity and morality of young women. These statutes made it a crime for a man to have sexual intercourse with a young woman under a certain age (usually eighteen), even if the young woman consented to the act. (Today of, course...1999, Raneta Lawson Mack, A Layperson's Guide to Criminal Law, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 72

Questions about statutory rapes

What is statutory rapes the plural of?
Statutory rapes is the plural of statutory rape.

Words near statutory rapes in the dictionary

  1. statutory instrument
  2. statutory instruments
  3. statutory law
  4. statutory laws
  5. statutory rape
  6. statutory rapes
  7. statuvolism
  8. statvolt
  9. statvolts
  10. statwise
  11. Statz

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