RESPONDING TO SEX OFFENSES

Question 1

Officers responding to these incidents shall: of sex offense

Answer 1

 Verify the incident
 Provide medical aid to injured persons
 Broadcast a lookout, if appropriate
 Secure the crime scene
 Notify the Sexual Assault Unit (SAU)
 Complete a Case Record, the narrative
for the Case Record need not be comprehensive

Question 2

where do victims go for a sexual assault exam

Answer 2

Prince George’s Hospital Center

Question 3

Evidence collected from an anonymous sexual assault forensic examination will be sent to the PGPD DNA laboratory and stored for potential forensic analysis in the future as follows

Answer 3

 75 years for first and second degree rape
 10 years for attempted first and second
degree rape
 1 year for any other sexual assault
offense

Question 4

RAPE – First Degree

FELONY – LIFE CR 3-303 ATTEMPT 3-309

Answer 4

A person may not engage in vaginal intercourse or sexual act with another by force, or threat of force, without the consent of the other person, AND

1. Employ or display a dangerous weapon, or a physical object that the victim reasonably believes is a dangerous weapon;
2. Suffocate, strangle, disfigure, or inflict serious physical injury on the victim or another in the course of committing the crime;
3. Threaten, or place the victim in fear, that the victim, or an individual known to the victim, imminently will be subject to death, suffocation, strangulation, disfigurement, serious physical injury, or kidnapping;
4. Commit the crime while aided and abetted by another; or
5. Commit the crime in connection with a burglary in the first, second, or third degree

Question 5

RAPE – Second Degree FELONY – 20 years

CR 3-304 ATTEMPT 3-310

Answer 5

A person may not engage in vaginal intercourse or sexual act with another,
1. By force, threat of force, without the consent of the other;
2. If the victim is a substantially cognitively impaired individual, a mentally incapacitated
individual, or a physically helpless individual, and the person performing the act knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a substantially cognitively impaired individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a physically helpless individual; or
3. If the victim is under the age of 14 years, and per person performing the act is at least 4 years older than the victim

Question 6

SEX OFFENSE – Third Degree FELONY – 10 years

CR 3-307

Answer 6

A person may not engage in sexual contact with another person without the consent of the other, and
1. Employ or display a dangerous weapon or a physical object that the victim reasonably believes is a dangerous weapon;
2. Suffocate, strangle, disfigure, or inflict serious physical injury on the victim or another in the course of committing the crime;
3. Threaten, or place the victim in fear, that the victim, or an individual known to the victim, imminently will be subject to death, suffocation, strangulation, disfigurement, serious physical injury, or kidnapping; or
4. Commit the crime while aided and abetted by another; or
Engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is a mentally defective individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a physically helpless individual, and the person performing the act knows or reasonably should know the victim is a mentally defective individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a physically helpless individual; or
Engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is under 14 years, and the person performing the sexual contact is at least 4 years older than the victim; or
Engage in a sexual act or vaginal intercourse with another person who is 14 or 15 years of age and the actor is at least 21 years of age.

Question 7

SEX OFFENSE – 4th Degree MISDEMEANOR – 1 Year

CR 3-308

Answer 7

A person may not engage in:
1. Sexual contact with another person against the will and without the consent of the other person.
2. A sexual act with another if the victim is 14 or 15 years old, and the person performing the act is
at least 4 years older than the victim
3. Vaginal intercourse with another if the victim is 14 or 15, and the person performing the act is at
least 4 years older than the victim