WYOMING : Rape/Molestation Statutes of Limitation
Any actor who inflicts sexual intrusion on a victim commits a sexual assault in the first degree if:
1. The actor causes submission of the victim through the actual application, reasonably calculated to cause submission of the victim, of physical force or forcible confinement;
2. The actor causes submission of the victim by threat of death, serious bodily injury, extreme physical pain or kidnapping to be inflicted on anyone and the victim reasonably believes that the actor has the present ability to execute these threats;
3. The victim is physically helpless, and the actor knows or reasonably should know that the victim is physically helpless and that the victim has not consented; or
4. The actor knows or reasonably should know that the victim through a mental illness, mental deficiency or developmental disability is incapable of appraising the nature of the victim's conduct.
Any actor who inflicts sexual intrusion on a victim commits sexual assault in the second degree if, under circumstances not constituting sexual assault in the first degree:
1. The actor causes submission of the victim by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or the victim's spouse, parents, brothers, sisters or children, and the victim reasonably believes the actor will execute this threat. "To retaliate" includes threats of kidnapping, death, serious bodily injury or extreme physical pain;
2. The actor causes submission of the victim by any means that would prevent resistance by a victim of ordinary resolution;
3. The actor administers, or knows that someone else administered to the victim, without the prior knowledge or consent of the victim, any substance which substantially impairs the victim's power to appraise or control his conduct;
4. The actor knows or should reasonably know that the victim submits erroneously believing the actor to be the victim's spouse;
5. At the time of the commission of the act the victim is less than twelve (12) years of age and the actor is at least four (4) years older than the victim;
6. The actor is in a position of authority over the victim and uses this position of authority to cause the victim to submit; or
7. The actor inflicts sexual intrusion in treatment or examination of a victim for purposes or in a manner substantially inconsistent with reasonable medical practices.
An actor commits sexual assault in the third degree if, under circumstances not constituting sexual assault in the first or second degree:
1. The actor is at least four (4) years older than the victim and inflicts sexual intrusion on a victim under the age of sixteen (16) years; or
2. The actor is an adult and subjects a victim under the age of fourteen (14) years to sexual contact without inflicting sexual intrusion on the victim and without causing serious bodily injury to the victim;
3. The actor subjects a victim to sexual contact without inflicting sexual intrusion on the victim and without causing serious bodily injury to the victim.
There is no statute of limitations on sexual assault in Wyoming.
Bob sexually assaults Jane. Bob may be prosecuted at any time for his crime.
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