CODE OF VIRGINIA

CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF CHILD BETWEEN THIRTEEN AND FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE (§ 18.2-63)

A. If any person carnally knows, without the use of force, a child thirteen
years of age or older but under fifteen years of age, such person shall be
guilty of a Class 4 felony.

B. If any person carnally knows, without the use of force, a child thirteen
years of age or older but under fifteen years of age who consents to sexual
intercourse and the accused is a minor and such consenting child is three years
or more the accused’s junior, the accused shall be guilty of a Class 6
felony. If such consenting child is less than three years the accused’s
junior, the accused shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.In calculating
whether such child is three years or more a junior of the accused minor, the
actual dates of birth of the child and the accused, respectively, shall be used.

C. For the purposes of this section, (i) a child under the age of thirteen years
shall not be considered a consenting child and (ii) “carnal
knowledge” includes the acts of sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio,
anilingus, anal intercourse, and animate and inanimate object sexual
penetration.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-44; 1960, c. 358; 1972, c. 394; 1975, cc. 14, 15,
606; 1981, c. 397; 1993, c. 852; 2007, c. 718.