CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 1127
Engaging in Sexual Intercourse or Sodomy With Child 10
Years of Age or Younger (Pen. Code, § 288.7(a))
The defendant is charged [in Count] with engaging in (sexual
intercourse/ [or] sodomy) with a child 10 years of age or younger [in
violation of Penal Code section 288.7(a)].
To prove that the defendant is guilty of this crime, the People must
prove that:
1. The defendant engaged in an act of (sexual intercourse/ [or]
sodomy) with <insert name of complaining witness>;
2. When the defendant did so, <insert name of
complaining witness> was 10 years of age or younger;
3. At the time of the act, the defendant was at least 18 years old.
[Under the law, a person becomes one year older as soon as the first
minute of his or her birthday has begun.]
[Sexual intercourse means any penetration, no matter how slight, of the
vagina or genitalia by the penis. [Ejaculation is not required.]]
[Sodomy is any penetration, no matter how slight, of the anus of one
person by the penis of another person. [Ejaculation is not required.]]
New August 2009; Revised February 2013, September 2017
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- calcrim-2019
- Content hash
f39a8aca00b648c6384bf4f88a208a82f84b9a02122785158c09547fb84aee3a
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