{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-510.090","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 510.090","heading":"Sodomy in the third degree.","body":"(1) A person is guilty of sodomy in the third degree when:\n(a) Being twenty-one (21) years old or more, he or she engages in deviate sexual\nintercourse with another person less than sixteen (16) years old;\n(b) Being at least ten (10) years older than a person who is sixteen (16) or\nseventeen (17) years old at the time of deviate sexual intercourse, he or she\nengages in deviate sexual intercourse with the person;\n(c) Being twenty-one (21) years old or more, he or she engages in deviate sexual\nintercourse with an other person less than eighteen (18) years old and for\nwhom he or she provides a foster family home as defined in KRS 600.020;\n(d) Being a person in a position of authority or position of special trust, as defined\nin KRS 532.045, he or she engages in devia te sexual intercourse with a minor\nless than eighteen (18) years old with whom he or she comes into contact as a\nresult of that position;\n(e) Being a jailer, or an employee, contractor, vendor, or volunteer of the\nDepartment of Corrections, Department of J uvenile Justice, or a detention\nfacility as defined in KRS 520.010, or of an entity under contract with either\ndepartment or a detention facility for the custody, supervision, evaluation, or\ntreatment of offenders, he or she subjects a person who he or she  knows is\nincarcerated, supervised, evaluated, or treated by the Department of\nCorrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, detention facility, or contracting\nentity, to deviate sexual intercourse; or\n(f) Being a peace officer, while serving in his or her official capacity, he or she\nsubjects a person who the officer:\n1. Arrested, held in custody, or investigated for commission of a traffic or\ncriminal offense; or\n2. Knew or should have known was under arrest, held in custody, or being\ninvestigated for commission of a traffic or criminal offense;\nto deviate sexual intercourse.\n(2) Sodomy in the third degree is a Class D felony.","path":["KRS Chapter 510"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=51304","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T21:00:01Z","sha256":"4b7738afd6984d9957834503194f199a97535c81ea49480566975feb2c0c78ca","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-510.080","next":"us-ky/krs-510.100"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}