Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute Wex entry defining statutory rape as sexual intercourse with a person under the age of consent, treated in law as rape regardless of apparent willingness.
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URLhttps://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/statutory_rape
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Reliability Tier1
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Cornell LII Wex: Statutory Rape
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/statutory_rape
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Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute
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an act of sexual intercourse with a person under the age of consent, which is considered to constitute rape under the law, whether the person is willing or not
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- Offenses, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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