What “Sexual Penetration” Means in Minnesota’s Criminal Sexual Conduct Statutes

In Minnesota, Criminal Sexual Conduct statutes are long and have many subdivisions. Click on the hyperlinks on our website to see the specific statute’s language and related blogs.

If an accused person commits any of the following acts without the accuser’s consent, whether or not the emission of semen occurs, the accused person has engaged in “sexual penetration:”

1. Sexual intercourse, oral sex, or anal intercourse; or
2. Any intrusion into the genital or anal openings:
   1. Of the accuser’s body by the accused or by an object used by the accused;
   2. If the accuser is under 13 years old or mentally impaired:
      1. accuser’s body by the accused or another person, or by any object used by the accused or another person, when caused by a person in a position of authority;
      2. accuser’s body by the accuser or another person, or by any object used by the accuser or another person, when the accuser is coerced or induced;
      3. accused’s body or another person’s body by the accuser or by any object used by the accuser, when caused by a person in a position of authority;
      4. accused’s body or another person’s body by the accuser or by any object used by the accuser, when the accuser is coerced or induced.

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