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S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-830: Reasonable belief as to majority of child as affirmative defense.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 16 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES
- CHAPTER 3 Offenses Against the Person
- ARTICLE 8 Sexual Performance by Children
It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this article that the defendant, in good faith, reasonably believed that the person who engaged in the sexual conduct was eighteen years of age or older.
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