18-6110. SEXUAL CONTACT WITH A PRISONER. (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.
History:
[18-6110, added 1993, ch. 222, sec. 1, p. 759; am. 2000, ch. 272, sec. 9, p. 792; am. 2003, ch. 37, sec. 1, p. 157; am. 2005, ch. 177, sec. 2, p. 548; am. 2008, ch. 60, sec. 2, p. 152; am. 2009, ch. 116, sec. 1, p. 373.]
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