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CALCRIM No. 1080

Oral Copulation With Person Under 14 (Pen. Code,

activein force · 2021-01-01 – presentcompiled-edition

§ 287(c)(1))

The defendant is charged [in Count] with oral copulation of a

person who was under the age of 14 and at least 10 years younger than

the defendant [in violation of Penal Code section 287(c)(1)].

To prove that the defendant is guilty of this crime, the People must

prove that:

1. The defendant participated in an act of oral copulation with

another person;

AND

2. At the time of the act, the other person was under the age of 14

and was at least 10 years younger than the defendant.

Oral copulation is any contact, no matter how slight, between the mouth

of one person and the sexual organ or anus of another person.

Penetration is not required.

[It is not a defense that the other person may have consented to the act.]

[Under the law, a person becomes one year older as soon as the first

minute of his or her birthday has begun.]

New January 2006; Revised September 2020

Provenance

Source
courts.ca.gov
Retrieved
2026-08-20
Edition
calcrim-2021
Content hash
3d40135c0cd16a4175b0c3d876dbd97fd791845d64a22236243b4e183baaf580
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