Sentence examples for offenses act from inspiring English sources
Delhi Police charged Mr. Sah and Mr. Ram under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act, which places the burden of proving their innocence on the accused.
Significantly, Hollinghurst sets it in 1966, the year before the passage of the Sexual Offenses Act largely decriminalized homosexuality in England.
Take Britain, where the 2003 Sexual Offenses Act reclassified rape as the penetration of a person's vagina, anus or mouth without consent, and defined consent in terms of that person's freedom and capacity to consent.
Last year, however, the government passed the Prevention of Child Sexual Offenses Act in response to a government survey that found over 53 percent of children in India had experienced some form of sexual abuse.
Mr. Asaram was booked under Sections 376 (rape), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act.
The main laws governing prostitution in the UK are still the 1956 Sexual Offenses Act, which makes brothel-keeping an offense, and the 1959 Street Offenses Act, which criminalizes solicitation.
Anti-rape activists are pushing for more legal reform: an amendment of the sexual-offenses act to allow for heavier sentences, and the introduction of hate-crimes legislation, which would address corrective rape.
In the UK, under the 2003 Sexual Offense Act, the act of public masturbation is often criminalized under Section 66 the crime of exposure.
The entire offense acted as a human plow, chipping at the snow with cleats to clear a spot for Vinatieri's winning kick.
But the statute's definition of "sexually violent offenses" encompasses acts that do not involve physical force, including those that are criminal because they involve a minor.
Brady and New England rose to prominence in the decade since, while the Ravens became the conference's perennial agitators, always dangerous enough on defense and pesky enough on offense to act as playoff spoilers.
