Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 49B

    (1)     A person (A) commits an offence if—

        (a)     A intentionally—

              (i)     sexually penetrates another person (B); or

              (ii)     causes or allows B to sexually penetrate A; or

              (iii)     causes B—

    (A)     to sexually penetrate themselves; or

    (B)     to sexually penetrate another person (C); or

    (C)     to be sexually penetrated by C; and

        (b)     B is a child under the age of 16 years.

    (2)     A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable to level 4 imprisonment (15 years maximum).

S. 49B(3) inserted by No. 34/2017 s. 28(1).

    (3)     The standard sentence for an offence against subsection (1) is 6 years.

Notes

1     An exception applies to this offence—see section 49T.

2     Defences apply to this offence—see sections 49V and  49W.

Note 3 to s. 49B inserted by No. 34/2017 s. 28(2).

3     See sections 5A and 5B of the Sentencing Act 1991 as to standard sentences.

New s. 49C inserted by No. 47/2016 s. 16.