Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Pennsylvania
So, a 16 year old girl and an 18 year old boy are close friends. She goes to his house to seek comfort over a bad dream (she has ptsd) and falls asleep, she wakes up to him molesting her later that night. At first she froze up after realizing what he was doing, then told him to stop. He stopped and after trying to lie and say nothing happened (he thought she was asleep the entire time) he admitted to molesting her, his reason being "you were asleep so I figured why not". If she wanted to press charges against him how exactly does that work? Is it considered an offense against a minor or something else? What is a likely sentencing for something like this? If there is even a case at all, she is now 17 and he is now 19. She has very little proof of the event, but it is something. (text messages of him admitting what he had done). Help.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Its not about offense against minor because she is age of consent (16). However it is criminal by definition because she was asleep and did not consent. I have no idea what you mean by "molest" but if there was intercourse it is rape. Anyway if she wishes she should contact the police in the place it occurred.
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