AB 579, as introduced, Melendez. Sex offenses against children.
Existing law provides that any person who is 18 years of age or older and who engages in sexual intercourse or sodomy with a child who is 10 years of age or younger is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 25 years to life. Existing law provides that any person who is 18 years of age or older and who engages in oral copulation or sexual penetration, as defined, with a child who is 10 years of age or younger is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 15 years to life.
This bill would technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 288.7 of the Penal Code is amended to
2read:
(a) Any personbegin insert who isend insert 18 years of age or olderbegin insert andend insert who
4engages in sexual intercourse or sodomy with a child who is 10
P2 1years of age or younger is guilty of a felony and shall be punished
2by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 25 years to life.
3(b) Any personbegin insert who isend insert 18 years of age or olderbegin insert andend insert
who engages
4in oral copulation or sexual penetration, as defined in Section 289,
5with a child who is 10 years of age or younger is guilty of a felony
6and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a
7term of 15 years to life.
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