{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-3-95","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-95","heading":"Sexual battery.","body":"(1) A person is guilty of sexual battery if he or she engages in sexual penetration with:\n(a) Another person without his or her consent;\n(b) A mentally defective, mentally incapacitated or physically helpless person;\n(c) A child at least fourteen (14) but under sixteen (16) years of age, if the person is thirty-six (36) or more months older than the child; or\n(d) A child under the age of fourteen (14) years of age, if the person is twenty-four (24) or more months older than the child.\n(2) A person is guilty of sexual battery if he or she engages in sexual penetration with a child under the age of eighteen (18) years if the person is in a position of trust or authority over the child including without limitation the child’s teacher, counselor, physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, minister, priest, physical therapist, chiropractor, legal guardian, parent, stepparent, aunt, uncle, scout leader or coach.","path":["Title 97. Crimes","Chapter 3. Crimes Against the Person"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.97.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:55:07Z","sha256":"a7da7b34d03d20b45976c7076e4853e5f63b686fb8382e47b4d0d466a4f9f00b","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-3-93","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-97-3-97","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}