STATE : Rape/Molestation Statutes of Limitation
A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree if the actor engages in sexual battery with the victim and if any one or more of the following circumstances are proven:
1. The actor uses aggravated force to accomplish sexual battery.
2. The victim submits to sexual battery by the actor under circumstances where the victim is also the victim of forcible confinement, kidnapping, robbery, extortion, burglary, housebreaking, or any other similar offense or act.
3. The actor causes the victim, without the victim's consent, to become mentally incapacitated or physically helpless by administering, distributing, dispensing, delivering, or causing to be administered, distributed, dispensed, or delivered a controlled substance, a controlled substance analogue, or any intoxicating substance.
A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree if the actor uses aggravated coercion to accomplish sexual battery.
A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree if the actor engages in sexual battery with the victim and if any one or more of the following circumstances are proven:
1. The actor uses force or coercion to accomplish the sexual battery in the absence of aggravating circumstances.
2. The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless and aggravated force or aggravated coercion was not used to accomplish sexual battery.
A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct with a minor in the first or second degree if:
1. the actor engages in sexual battery with a victim who is fourteen years of age or less; or
2. the actor engages in sexual battery with a victim who is at least fourteen years of age but who is less than sixteen years of age and the actor is in a position of familial, custodial, or official authority to coerce the victim to submit or is older than the victim. However, a person may not be convicted of a violation of the provisions of this item if he is eighteen years of age or less when he engages in illicit but consensual sexual conduct with another person who is at least fourteen years of age. In addition, mistake of age may be used as a defense
There is no statute of limitations for these crimes in South Carolina.
In South Carolina, there is no evidence of a statute of limitations.
Bob molests 14-year-old Jane. There does not seem to be a statute of limitations in which Bob can be prosecuted.
n South Carolina, there is no evidence of a statute of limitations.
Bob is 15-year-old Jane's teacher. He molests her. Since he is in a position of authority over Jane, there is no statute of limitations for his prosecution.
In South Carolina, there is no evidence of a statute of limitations.
Bob rapes 18-year-old Jane. There is no statute of limitations; Bob can be prosecuted at any point.
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