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District of Columbia · Through 2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)

D.C. Code § 22-3014: Second degree sexual abuse of a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner.

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  1. Title 22. Criminal Offenses and Penalties.
  2. Chapter 30. Sexual Abuse.
  3. Subchapter II. Sex Offenses.

Any staff member, employee, contract employee, consultant, or volunteer of a law enforcement agency or at a hospital, treatment facility, law enforcement facility, detention or correctional facility, group home, or other institution; anyone who is an ambulance driver or attendant, bus driver or attendant, or person who participates in the transportation of a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner to and from such institutions; or any official custodian of a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner, who engages in a sexual contact with a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner, or causes a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner, to engage in or submit to a sexual contact shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01, or incarcerated for no more than 5 years, or both.

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