VIRGINIA : Rape/Molestation Statutes of Limitation
If any person has sexual intercourse with a complaining witness, whether or not his or her spouse, or causes a complaining witness, whether or not his or her spouse, to engage in sexual intercourse with any other person and such act is accomplished:
1. against the complaining witness's will, by force, threat or intimidation of or against the complaining witness or another person; or
2. through the use of the complaining witness's mental incapacity or physical helplessness; or
3. with a child under age 13 as the victim,
...he or she shall be guilty of rape.
An accused is guilty of sexual battery if he sexually abuses:
1. the complaining witness against the will of the complaining witness, by force, threat, intimidation, or ruse,
2. an inmate who has been committed to jail or convicted and sentenced to confinement in a state or local correctional facility or regional jail, and the accused is an employee or contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, the state or local correctional facility or regional jail; is in a position of authority over the inmate; and knows that the inmate is under the jurisdiction of the state or local correctional facility or regional jail, or
3. a probationer, parolee, or a pretrial or posttrial offender under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, a local community-based probation program, a pretrial services program, a local or regional jail for the purposes of imprisonment, a work program or any other parole/probationary or pretrial services program and the accused is an employee or contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, the Department of Corrections, a local community-based probation program, a pretrial services program or a local or regional jail; is in a position of authority over an offender; and knows that the offender is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, a local community-based probation program, a pretrial services program or a local or regional jail.
If any person carnally knows, without the use of force, a child thirteen years of age or older but under fifteen years of age, such person shall be guilty of carnal knowledge of a child (Class 4 felony).
There is no statute of limitations on felony sexual offenses in Virginia.
Bob commits rape against Jane. As residents of the state of Virginia, there is no limit to the time Jane has to report and seek charges against Bob; he can be tried and convicted at any time.
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