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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76651</law_id><section_number>18.2-63</section_number><catch_line>Carnal knowledge of child between thirteen and fifteen years of age</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-241</reference><reference>16.1-272</reference><reference>17.1-805</reference><reference>18.2-370.2</reference><reference>18.2-371</reference><reference>18.2-67.5:2</reference><reference>19.2-299</reference><reference>19.2-303</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</reference><reference>2.2-515.2</reference><reference>20-124.1</reference><reference>20-49.1</reference><reference>22.1-289.041</reference><reference>37.2-900</reference><reference>53.1-165.1</reference><reference>63.2-1202</reference><reference>63.2-1222</reference><reference>63.2-1233</reference><reference>63.2-1530</reference><reference>63.2-903</reference><reference>9.1-902</reference><reference>9.1-923</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Crimes Against the Person</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Criminal Sexual Assault</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> If any person carnally knows, without the use of force, a child thirteen years of age or older but under fifteen years of age, such person shall be guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <a id="paragraph-275160" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-63/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If any person carnally knows, without the use of force, a child thirteen years of age or older but under fifteen years of age who consents to sexual intercourse and the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> is a <span class="dictionary">minor</span> and such consenting child is three years or more the <span class="dictionary">accused</span>&#x2019;s junior, the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> shall be guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. If such consenting child is less than three years the <span class="dictionary">accused</span>&#x2019;s junior, the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> shall be guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.
			In calculating whether such child is three years or more a junior of the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> <span class="dictionary">minor</span>, the actual dates of birth of the child and the <span class="dictionary">accused</span>, respectively, shall be used. <a id="paragraph-275161" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-63/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> For the purposes of this section, (i) a child under the age of thirteen years shall not be considered a consenting child and (ii) &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">carnal knowledge</span>&#x201D; includes the acts of sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, and animate and inanimate <span class="dictionary">object</span> sexual penetration. <a id="paragraph-275162" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-63/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-44; 1960, c. 358; 1972, c. 394; 1975, cc. 14, 15, 606; 1981, c. 397; 1993, c. 852; 2007, c. 718.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
