Tenn. Code § 39-13-502 : CRIMINAL OFFENSES — OFFENSES AGAINST PERSON — SEXUAL OFFENSES —13-502 - Aggravated rape

(a) Aggravated rape is unlawful sexual penetration of a victim by the defendant or the defendant by a victim accompanied by any of the following circumstances:
(1) Force or coercion is used to accomplish the act and the defendant is armed with a weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead the victim reasonably to believe it to be a weapon;
(2) The defendant causes bodily injury to the victim;
(3) The defendant is aided or abetted by one (1) or more other persons; and
(A) Force or coercion is used to accomplish the act; or
(B) The defendant knows or has reason to know that the victim is:
(i) Mentally defective;
(ii) Mentally incapacitated;
(iii) Physically helpless; or
(iv) A vulnerable adult, as defined in § 39-15-501, with an intellectual disability.
(b) Aggravated rape is a Class A felony.

T.C.A. § 39-13-502

Amended by 2021 Tenn. Acts, ch. 500, s 3, eff. 10/1/2021.
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 1990, ch. 980, § 3; 1992, ch. 878, § 3.
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