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Criminal Code

Version of section 153 from 2003-01-01 to 2005-10-31:


Marginal note:Sexual exploitation

  •  (1) Every person who is in a position of trust or authority towards a young person or is a person with whom the young person is in a relationship of dependency and who

    • (a) for a sexual purpose, touches, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, any part of the body of the young person, or

    • (b) for a sexual purpose, invites, counsels or incites a young person to touch, directly or indirectly, with a part of the body or with an object, the body of any person, including the body of the person who so invites, counsels or incites and the body of the young person,

    is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

  • Marginal note:Definition of “young person”

    (2) In this section, young person means a person fourteen years of age or more but under the age of eighteen years.

  • R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 153
  • R.S., 1985, c. 19 (3rd Supp.), s. 1

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