TEXAS : Rape/Molestation Statutes of Limitation
A person commits sexual assault if he engages in sexual penetration or contact and:
1. the actor compels the other person to submit or participate by the use of physical force or violence;
2. the actor compels the other person to submit or participate by threatening to use force or violence against the other person, and the other person believes that the actor has the present ability to execute the threat;
3. the other person has not consented and the actor knows the other person is unconscious or physically unable to resist;
4. the actor knows that as a result of mental disease or defect the other person is at the time of the sexual assault incapable either of appraising the nature of the act or of resisting it;
5. the other person has not consented and the actor knows the other person is unaware that the sexual assault is occurring;
6. the actor has intentionally impaired the other person's power to appraise or control the other person's conduct by administering any substance without the other person's knowledge;
7. the actor compels the other person to submit or participate by threatening to use force or violence against any person, and the other person believes that the actor has the ability to execute the threat;
8. the actor is a public servant who coerces the other person to submit or participate;
9. the actor is a mental health services provider or a health care services provider who causes the other person, who is a patient or former patient of the actor, to submit or participate by exploiting the other person's emotional dependency on the actor;
10. the actor is a clergyman who causes the other person to submit or participate by exploiting the other person's emotional dependency on the clergyman in the clergyman's professional character as spiritual adviser; or
11. the actor is an employee of a facility where the other person is a resident, unless the employee and resident are formally or informally married to each other
A person commits aggravated sexual assault if, in addition to the above, he:
1. causes serious bodily injury or attempts to cause the death of the victim or another person in the course of the same criminal episode;
2. by acts or words places the victim in fear that death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping will be imminently inflicted on any person;
3. by acts or words occurring in the presence of the victim threatens to cause the death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping of any person;
4. uses or exhibits a deadly weapon in the course of the same criminal episode;
5. acts with an accomplice; or
6. administers or provides flunitrazepam, otherwise known as rohypnol, gamma hydroxybutyrate, or ketamine to the victim of the offense with the intent of facilitating the commission of the offense;
7. the victim is younger than 14 years of age;
8. the victim is an elderly individual or a disabled individual.
A person commits indecency with a child if, with a child younger than 17 years and not the person's spouse, whether the child is of the same or opposite sex, the person:
1. engages in sexual contact with the child or causes the child to engage in sexual contact; or
2. with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person:
a. exposes the person's anus or any part of the person's genitals, knowing the child is present; or
b. causes the child to expose the child's anus or any part of the child's genitals.
The statute of limitations for these sexual offenses involving a child is 10 years from the child's 18th birthday.
Bob engages in indecency with 15-year-old Jane. Jane must press charges by her 28th birthday.
In general, the statute of limitations for sexual assault (adult victims) is 10 years after the commission of the offense.
Bob sexually assaults 20-year-old Jane. Jane must press charges within 10 years of the date the incident happened.
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