{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-288.7","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 288.7","heading":"","body":"(a) Any person 18 years of age or older who engages in sexual intercourse or sodomy with a child who is 10 years of age or younger is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 25 years to life.\n(b) Any person 18 years of age or older who engages in oral copulation or sexual penetration, as defined in Section 289, with a child who is 10 years of age or younger is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 15 years to life.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","TITLE 9. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON INVOLVING SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY AND GOOD MORALS [261. - 368.7.]","CHAPTER 5. Bigamy, Incest, and the Crime Against Nature [281. - 289.6.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"c7baa153715be1bea1c0927fae4802f1f494c038401de206efc2da5b38167dc6","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-288.5","next":"us-ca/pen-289"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}