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Title: Minister calls for rape to re-added to the criminal code
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2010-05-17 19:02:37
Canadian

[Dragom]

Why not just redefine indecent sexual assault as a criminal offense? It's already sufficiently different then sexual assault.

[andyt]

Dragom Dragom:

Why not just redefine indecent sexual assault as a criminal offense? It's already sufficiently different then sexual assault.

Indecent sexual assault vs decent sexual assault.

I've thought this a long time. Conflating rape with patting somebody on the butt, calling it all sexual assault just confuses the issue. The butt patter gets labelled a sexual offender and is treated the same as a rapist. But I would say that anal rape or forced fellatio should be in the same category as vaginal rape.

[Dragom]

I'm pretty sure you have to jam something into something to get Indecent Sexual assault, a crime with a maximum penalty of 10 years.

Ordinary Sexual Assault pretty much tops out around a kiss and a grope and it's worth a maximum of 2 years.

But then it was a few years ago and I was reading the abridged version of the Law that is the 2004 Policeman's Pocket Book.

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