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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67558</law_id><section_number>18.2-64.1</section_number><catch_line>Carnal knowledge of certain minors</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-272</reference><reference>17.1-805</reference><reference>18.2-370.2</reference><reference>18.2-67.5:2</reference><reference>19.2-299</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</reference><reference>2.2-515.2</reference><reference>22.1-289.041</reference><reference>37.2-900</reference><reference>53.1-165.1</reference><reference>63.2-1530</reference><reference>9.1-902</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><p>If any person providing services, paid or unpaid, to juveniles under the purview of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District <span class="dictionary">Court</span> <span class="dictionary">Law</span>, or to juveniles who have been committed to the <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of the State Department of Juvenile Justice, carnally knows, without the use of force, any <span class="dictionary">minor</span> fifteen years of age or older, when such <span class="dictionary">minor</span> is confined or detained in jail, is detained in any facility mentioned in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Places of confinement for juveniles" href="/16.1-249/">16.1-249</a>, or has been committed to the <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of the Department of Juvenile Justice pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Delinquent juveniles" href="/16.1-278.8/">16.1-278.8</a>, knowing or having good reason to believe that (i) such <span class="dictionary">minor</span> is in such confinement or detention status, (ii) such <span class="dictionary">minor</span> is a ward of the Department of Juvenile Justice, or (iii) such <span class="dictionary">minor</span> is on <span class="dictionary">probation</span>, furlough, or leave from or has escaped or absconded from such confinement, detention, or <span class="dictionary">custody</span>, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.
		For the purposes of this section, &#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.</p></section></text><history>1977, c. 304; 1981, c. 397; 1989, c. 733; 1991, c. 534; 1993, c. 852.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
