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Section 115: Indecent assaults, penalties for sexual offenses against women and girls

115.Indecent assaults, etc.

(1)Any person who unlawfully and indecently assaults any woman or girl commits a felony and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term of fourteen years.

(2)It shall be no defence to a charge for an indecent assault on a girl under the age of eighteen years to prove that she consented to the act of indecency.

(3)Any person who, intending to insult the modesty of any woman or girl, utters any word, makes any sound or gesture or exhibits any object, intending that that word or sound shall be heard, or that the gesture or object shall be seen by that woman or girl, or intrudes upon the privacy of that woman or girl, commits a misdemeanour and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term of one year.

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You can be convicted for indecently assaulting a woman or girl. This is a felony and can lead to 14 years in prison. Even if the victim is under 18 an...

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