§ 18.2-361 Crimes against nature; penalty.

History

This law was first passed in 1950. It was updated in 1960, 1968, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1993, and 2005.

Court Decisions

Scott Louis Bakran v. Commonwealth of Virginia (COA, 10/26/10)
Trial court did not err in finding evidence was sufficient to prove appellant used his vehicle to promote prostitution where appellant committed substantial acts in furtherance of prostitution while in vehicle
Michael Grafmuller v. Commonwealth of Virginia (COA, 08/31/10)
Trial court did not err in sentencing appellant pursuant to mandatory minimum provisions in Code 18.2-374.3(C) where victim need not be an actual child for the mandatory minimum to apply
Dean Robert Podracky v. Commonwealth of Virginia (COA, 06/10/08)
No error in appellants conviction of using a communications system to solicit a person, he knew or had reason to believe was a minor, for certain sexual offenses, in violation of Code 18.2-374.3(B), where appellant has not shown that the code section prohibits free speech protected by the First Amendment
William Scott McDonald, a/k/a William Scott MacDonald v. Commonwealth (COA, 06/13/06)
This Court finds that Code Section 18.2-361(A) is constitutional as applied to appellant because his violations involved minors and merit no protection under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; appellants convictions of four counts of sodomy are affirmed
James Warren Colbert v. Commonwealth (COA, 01/10/06)
Trial court did not err in requiring appellant to register as a sex offender pursuant to Code Section 9.1-902(A)(2) as a condition of his suspended sentences

Cross References

§ 9.1-902 Offenses requiring registration.
§ 16.1-272 Power of circuit court over juvenile offender.
§ 17.1-805 Adoption of initial discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints.
§ 18.2-62 Testing of certain persons for human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses.
§ 18.2-67.5:2 Punishment upon conviction of certain subsequent felony sexual assault.
§ 18.2-67.8 Closed preliminary hearings.
§ 18.2-346 Being a prostitute or prostitution.
§ 18.2-346.1 Testing of convicted prostitutes and injection drug users for infection with human immunodeficiency viruses and hepatitis C; limited disclosure.
§ 18.2-348 Aiding prostitution or illicit sexual intercourse.
§ 18.2-356 Receiving money for procuring person.
§ 18.2-359 Venue for criminal sexual assault or where any person transported for criminal sexual assault, attempted criminal sexual assault, or purposes of unlawful sexual intercourse, crimes against nature, and indecent liberties with children; venue for such crime
§ 18.2-360 Competency of persons to testify in prosecutions under §§ 18.2-355 through 18.2-361.
§ 18.2-370 Taking indecent liberties with children; penalties.
§ 18.2-370.1 Taking indecent liberties with child by person in custodial or supervisory relationship; penalties.
§ 18.2-370.2 Sex offenses prohibiting proximity to children; penalty.
§ 18.2-374.3 Use of communications systems to facilitate certain offenses involving children.
§ 19.2-268.2 Recent complaint hearsay exception (Subdivision (23) of Supreme Court Rule 2:803 derived from this section).
§ 19.2-271.2 Testimony of husband and wife in criminal cases (Subsection (b) of Supreme Court Rule 2:504 derived from this section).
§ 19.2-299 Investigations and reports by probation officers in certain cases.
§ 32.1-58 Persons convicted of certain crimes to be examined, tested and treated.
§ 32.1-126.01 Employment for compensation of persons convicted of certain offenses prohibited; criminal records check required; suspension or revocation of license.
§ 32.1-162.9:1 Employment for compensation of persons convicted of certain offenses prohibited; criminal records check required; drug testing; suspension or revocation of license.
§ 37.2-314 Background check required.
§ 37.2-408.1 Background check required; children's residential facilities.
§ 63.2-1530 Virginia Child Protection Accountability System.
§ 63.2-1719 Definitions.
§ 63.2-1726 Background check required; children's residential facilities.
§ 63.2-1727 Sex offender or child abuser prohibited from operating or residing in family day home.

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A. If any person carnally knows in any manner any brute animal, or carnally knows any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth, or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, he or she shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony, except as provided in subsection B. ¶

B. Any person who performs or causes to be performed cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus or anal intercourse upon or by his daughter or granddaughter, son or grandson, brother or sister, or father or mother is guilty of a Class 5 felony. However, if a parent or grandparent commits any such act with his child or grandchild and such child or grandchild is at least 13 but less than 18 years of age at the time of the offense, such parent or grandparent is guilty of a Class 3 felony. ¶

C. For the purposes of this section, parent includes step-parent, grandparent includes step-grandparent, child includes step-child and grandchild includes step-grandchild. ¶

History

This law has been modified 6 times since it was first created in 1960. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1968, chapter 427; in 1975, chapters 14, 15, ; in 1977, chapter 285; in 1981, chapter 397; in 1993, chapter 450; in 2005, chapter 185.

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