GUAM DEFINITIONS

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§ 25.10. Definitions.
(a) As used in this Chapter:
(1) Actor means a person accused of criminal sexual conduct;
(2) Force or Coercion includes but is not limited to any of the following circumstances:
(i) when the actor overcomes the victim through the actual application of physical force or physical violence;
(ii) when the actor coerces the victim to submit by threatening to use force or violence on the victim and the victim believes that the actor has the present ability to execute these threats;
(iii) when the actor coerces the victim to submit by threatening to retaliate in the future against the victim or any other person and the victim believes that the actor has the ability to execute this threat. As used in this Subsection, to retaliate includes threats of physical punishment, kidnapping or extortion;
(iv) when the actor engages in the medical treatment or examination of the victim in a manner or for purposes which are medically recognized as unethical or unacceptable; or
(v) when the actor, through concealment or by the element of surprise, is able to overcome the victim.
(3) Intimate Parts includes the primary genital area, groin, inner thigh, buttock or breast of a human being; COL120106
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(4) Mentally Defective means that a person suffers from a mental disease or defect which renders that person temporary or permanently incapable of appraising the nature of his or her conduct;
(5) Mentally Incapacitated means that a person is rendered temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling his or her conduct due to the influence of a narcotic, anesthetic or other substance administered to that person without his or her consent, or due to any other act committed upon that person without his or her consent;
(6) Physically Helpless means that a person is unconscious, asleep or for any other reason is physically unable to communicate unwillingness to an act;
(7) Personal Injury means bodily injury, disfigurement, mental anguish, chronic pain, pregnancy, disease or loss or impairment of a sexual or reproductive organ;
(8) Sexual Contact includes the intentional touching of the victim's or actor's intimate parts or the intentional touching of the clothing covering the immediate area of the victim's or actor's intimate parts, if that intentional touching can reasonably be construed as being for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification;
(9) Sexual Penetration means sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anal intercourse or any other intrusion, however slight, of any part of a person's body or of any object into the genital or anal openings of another person's body, but emission of semen is not required; and
(10) Victim means the person alleging to have been subjected to criminal sexual conduct.
(b) Whenever in this Chapter the criminality of conduct depends on a child's being below the age of fourteen (14), it is no defense that the defendant reasonably believed the child to be fourteen (14) or older. Whenever in this Chapter the criminality of conduct depends on a child's being below a specified age older than fourteen (14), it is an affirmative defense that the defendant reasonably believed the child to be of that age or above.
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NOTE: Mostly, this section refers to persons who are between the ages of fourteen and either sixteen or eighteen, since the age of majority on Guam is eighteen years for most purposes and sixteen for others.

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