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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(1) It is a felony for any employee of the Idaho department of correction, Idaho department of juvenile corrections or any officer, employee or agent of a state, local or private correctional facility, as those terms are defined in section 18-101A, Idaho Code, to have sexual contact with a prisoner or juvenile offender, not their spouse, whether an in-state or out-of-state prisoner or juvenile offender, as those terms are defined in section 18-101A, Idaho Code.
(2) It is a felony for any supervising officer, as that term is defined in section 18-101A, Idaho Code, to knowingly have sexual contact with any parolee or probationer, as those terms are defined in section 18-101A, Idaho Code, who is not the person's spouse.
(3) For the purposes of this section “sexual contact” means sexual intercourse, genital-genital contact, manual-anal contact, manual-genital contact, oral-genital contact, anal-genital contact or oral-anal contact, between persons of the same or opposite sex.
(4) Any person found guilty of sexual contact with a prisoner or juvenile offender is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term not to exceed life.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Idaho Statutes Title 18. Crimes and Punishments § 18-6110. Sexual contact with a prisoner - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/id/title-18-crimes-and-punishments/id-st-sect-18-6110/
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