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N.Y. Penal Law § 255.25: Incest in the third degree

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  1. Penal Law
  2. Part 3. Specific Offenses
  3. Title O. Offenses Against Marriage, the Family, and the Welfare of Children and Incompetents
  4. Article 255. Offenses Affecting the Marital Relationship

§ 255.25 Incest in the third degree.

A person is guilty of incest in the third degree when he or she

marries or engages in vaginal sexual contact, oral sexual contact or

anal sexual contact with a person whom he or she knows to be related to

him or her, whether through marriage or not, as an ancestor, descendant,

brother or sister of either the whole or the half blood, uncle, aunt,

nephew or niece.

Incest in the third degree is a class E felony.

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