(a) A person may not:
(1) (i) engage in sexual contact with another without the consent of the other;
and
(ii) 1. employ or display a dangerous weapon, or a physical object that the
victim reasonably believes is a dangerous weapon;
2. suffocate, strangle, disfigure, or inflict serious physical injury on
the victim or another in the course of committing the crime;
3. threaten, or place the victim in fear, that the victim, or an
individual known to the victim, imminently will be subject to death,
suffocation, strangulation, disfigurement, serious physical injury, or
kidnapping; or
4. commit the crime while aided and abetted by another;
(2) engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is a mentally
defective individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a
physically helpless individual, and the person performing the act knows
or reasonably should know the victim is a mentally defective
individual, a mentally incapacitated individual, or a physically
helpless individual;
(3) engage in sexual contact with another if the victim is under the age of
14 years, and the person performing the sexual contact is at least 4
years older than the victim;
(4) engage in a sexual act with another if the victim is 14 or 15 years
old, and the person performing the sexual act is at least 21 years old;
or
(5) engage in vaginal intercourse with another if the victim is 14 or 15
years old, and the person performing the act is at least 21 years old.
(b) A person who violates this section is guilty of the felony of sexual
offense in the third degree and on conviction is subject to
imprisonment not exceeding 10 years.
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