Colorado legal term
Sexual contact in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Sexual contact” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Colorado criminal code.
What does “Sexual contact” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Sexual contact" means: (a) The knowing touching of the victim's intimate parts by the actor, or of the actor's intimate parts by the victim, or the knowing touching of the clothing covering the immediate area of the victim's or actor's intimate parts if that sexual contact is for the purposes of sexual arousal, gratification, or abuse; (b) The knowing emission or ejaculation of seminal fluid onto any body part of the victim or the clothing covering any body part of the victim; or (c) Knowingly causing semen, blood, urine, feces, or a bodily substance to contact any body part of the victim or (C.R.S. § 18-3-401)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Sexual assault on a client by a psychotherapist
- Sexual conduct in a correctional institution
- Unlawful sexual contact
- Abuse of public trust by an educator
- Aggravated incest
- Enticement of a child
- Incest
- Internet luring of a child
- Sexual assault on a child
- Sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust
- Unlawful electronic sexual communication
- Unlawful sexual conduct by a peace officer
Related terms in the same statutes
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