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MCL § 750.10a

§ 750.10a.    Sexually delinquent persons; definition.

   Sec. 10a. The term "sexually delinquent person" when used in this act shall mean any person whose sexual behavior is characterized by repetitive or compulsive acts which indicate a disregard of consequences or the recognized rights of others, or by the use of force upon another person in attempting sex relations of either a heterosexual or homosexual nature, or by the commission of sexual aggressions against children under the age of 16.MCL § 750.167

§ 750.167.    "Disorderly person" defined; subsequent violations by person convicted of refusing or neglecting to support family.

   Sec. 167. (1) A person is a disorderly person if the person is any of the following:
   (a) A person of sufficient ability who refuses or neglects to support his or her family.
   (b) A common prostitute.
   (c) A window peeper.
   (d) A person who engages in an illegal occupation or business.
   (e) A person who is intoxicated in a public place and who is either endangering directly the safety of another person or of property or is acting in a manner that causes a public disturbance.
   (f) A person who is engaged in indecent or obscene conduct in a public place.
   (g) A vagrant.
   (h) A person found begging in a public place.
   (i) A person found loitering in a house of ill fame or prostitution or place where prostitution or lewdness is practiced, encouraged, or allowed.
   (j) A person who knowingly loiters in or about a place where an illegal occupation or business is being conducted.
   (k) A person who loiters in or about a police station, police headquarters building, county jail, hospital, court building, or other public building or place for the purpose of soliciting employment of legal services or the services of sureties upon criminal recognizances.
   (l) A person who is found jostling or roughly crowding people unnecessarily in a public place.
   (2) When a person, who has been convicted of refusing or neglecting to support his or her family under this section, is then charged with subsequent violations within a period of 2 years, that person shall be prosecuted as a second offender, or third and subsequent offender, as provided in section 168, if the family of that person is then receiving public relief or support.

MCL § 750.158

§ 750.158.    Crime against nature or sodomy; penalty.

   Sec. 158. Any person who shall commit the abominable and detestable crime against nature either with mankind or with any animal shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not more than 15 years, or if such person was at the time of the said offense a sexually delinquent person, may be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for an indeterminate term, the minimum of which shall be 1 day and the maximum of which shall be life.

MCL § 750.145a

§ 750.145a.    Accosting, enticing or soliciting child for immoral purpose.

   Sec. 145a. A person who accosts, entices, or solicits a child less than 16 years of age, regardless of whether the person knows the individual is a child or knows the actual age of the child, or an individual whom he or she believes is a child less than 16 years of age with the intent to induce or force that child or individual to commit an immoral act, to submit to an act of sexual intercourse or an act of gross indecency, or to any other act of depravity or delinquency, or who encourages a child less than 16 years of age, regardless of whether the person knows the individual is a child or knows the actual age of the child, or an individual whom he or she believes is a child less than 16 years of age to engage in any of those acts is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 4 years or a fine of not more than $4,000.00, or both.

MCL § 750.145b

§ 750.145b.    Accosting, enticing or soliciting child for immoral purpose; prior conviction; penalty.

   Sec. 145b. (1) A person convicted of violating section 145a who has 1 or more prior convictions is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both.
   (2) If the prosecuting attorney intends to seek an enhanced sentence based upon the defendant having 1 or more prior convictions, the prosecuting attorney shall include on the complaint and information a statement listing the prior conviction or convictions. The existence of the defendant's prior conviction or convictions shall be determined by the court, without a jury, at sentencing or at a separate hearing for that purpose before sentencing. The existence of a prior conviction may be established by any evidence relevant for that purpose, including, but not limited to, 1 or more of the following:
   (a) A copy of the judgment of conviction.
   (b) A transcript of a prior trial, plea-taking, or sentencing.
   (c) Information contained in a presentence report.
   (d) The defendant's statement.
   (3) As used in this section, "prior conviction" means a violation of section 145a or a violation of a law of another state substantially corresponding to section 145a.

MCL § 750.145c

§ 750.145c.    Definitions; child sexually abusive activity or material; penalties; possession of child sexually abusive material; expert testimony; defenses; acts of commercial film or photographic print processor; report to law enforcement agency by computer technician; applicability and uniformity of section; enactment or enforcement of ordinances, rules, or regulations prohibited.

   Sec. 145c. (1) As used in this section:
   (a) "Appears to include a child" means that the depiction appears to include, or conveys the impression that it includes, a person who is less than 18 years of age, and the depiction meets either of the following conditions:
     (i)  It was created using a depiction of any part of an actual person under the age of 18.
     (ii)  It was not created using a depiction of any part of an actual person under the age of 18, but all of the following apply to that depiction:
   (A)The average individual, applying contemporary community standards, would find the depiction, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.
   (B)The reasonable person would find the depiction, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
   (C)The depiction depicts or describes a listed sexual act in a patently offensive way.
   (b) "Child" means a person who is less than 18 years of age, subject to the affirmative defense created in subsection (6) regarding persons emancipated by operation of law.
   (c) "Commercial film or photographic print processor" means a person or his or her employee who, for compensation, develops exposed photographic film into movie films, negatives, slides, or prints; makes prints from negatives or slides; or duplicates movie films or videotapes.
   (d) "Computer technician" means a person who installs, maintains, troubleshoots, upgrades, or repairs computer hardware, software, personal computer networks, or peripheral equipment.
   (e) "Contemporary community standards" means the customary limits of candor and decency in this state at or near the time of the alleged violation of this section.
   (f) "Erotic fondling" means touching a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if the person is female, breasts, or if the person is a child, the developing or undeveloped breast area, for the purpose of real or simulated overt sexual gratification or stimulation of 1 or more of the persons involved. Erotic fondling does not include physical contact, even if affectionate, that is not for the purpose of real or simulated overt sexual gratification or stimulation of 1 or more of the persons involved.
   (g) "Erotic nudity" means the lascivious exhibition of the genital, pubic, or rectal area of any person. As used in this subdivision, "lascivious" means wanton, lewd, and lustful and tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.
   (h) "Listed sexual act" means sexual intercourse, erotic fondling, sadomasochistic abuse, masturbation, passive sexual involvement, sexual excitement, or erotic nudity.
   (i) "Masturbation" means the real or simulated touching, rubbing, or otherwise stimulating of a person's own clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if the person is female, breasts, or if the person is a child, the developing or undeveloped breast area, either by manual manipulation or self-induced or with an artificial instrument, for the purpose of real or simulated overt sexual gratification or arousal of the person.
   (j) "Passive sexual involvement" means an act, real or simulated, that exposes another person to or draws another person's attention to an act of sexual intercourse, erotic fondling, sadomasochistic abuse, masturbation, sexual excitement, or erotic nudity because of viewing any of these acts or because of the proximity of the act to that person, for the purpose of real or simulated overt sexual gratification or stimulation of 1 or more of the persons involved.
   (k) "Prurient interest" means a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion.
   (l) "Child sexually abusive activity" means a child engaging in a listed sexual act.
   (m) "Child sexually abusive material" means any depiction, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, including a developed or undeveloped photograph, picture, film, slide, video, electronic visual image, computer diskette, computer or computer-generated image, or picture, or sound recording which is of a child or appears to include a child engaging in a listed sexual act; a book, magazine, computer, computer storage device, or other visual or print or printable medium containing such a photograph, picture, film, slide, video, electronic visual image, computer, or computer-generated image, or picture, or sound recording; or any reproduction, copy, or print of such a photograph, picture, film, slide, video, electronic visual image, book, magazine, computer, or computer-generated image, or picture, other visual or print or printable medium, or sound recording.
   (n) "Sadomasochistic abuse" means either of the following:
     (i)  Flagellation or torture, real or simulated, for the purpose of real or simulated sexual stimulation or gratification, by or upon a person.
     (ii)  The condition, real or simulated, of being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restrained for sexual stimulation or gratification of a person.v    (o) "Sexual excitement" means the condition, real or simulated, of human male or female genitals in a state of real or simulated overt sexual stimulation or arousal.
   (p) "Sexual intercourse" means intercourse, real or simulated, whether genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex or between a human and an animal, or with an artificial genital.
   (2) A person who persuades, induces, entices, coerces, causes, or knowingly allows a child to engage in a child sexually abusive activity for the purpose of producing any child sexually abusive material, or a person who arranges for, produces, makes, or finances, or a person who attempts or prepares or conspires to arrange for, produce, make, or finance any child sexually abusive activity or child sexually abusive material is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or a fine of not more than $100,000.00, or both, if that person knows, has reason to know, or should reasonably be expected to know that the child is a child or that the child sexually abusive material includes a child or that the depiction constituting the child sexually abusive material appears to include a child, or that person has not taken reasonable precautions to determine the age of the child.
   (3) A person who distributes or promotes, or finances the distribution or promotion of, or receives for the purpose of distributing or promoting, or conspires, attempts, or prepares to distribute, receive, finance, or promote any child sexually abusive material or child sexually abusive activity is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 7 years, or a fine of not more than $50,000.00, or both, if that person knows, has reason to know, or should reasonably be expected to know that the child is a child or that the child sexually abusive material includes a child or that the depiction constituting the child sexually abusive material appears to include a child, or that person has not taken reasonable precautions to determine the age of the child. This subsection does not apply to the persons described in section 7 of 1984 PA 343, MCL 752.367.
   (4) A person who knowingly possesses any child sexually abusive material is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 4 years or a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both, if that person knows, has reason to know, or should reasonably be expected to know the child is a child or that the child sexually abusive material includes a child or that the depiction constituting the child sexually abusive material appears to include a child, or that person has not taken reasonable precautions to determine the age of the child. This subsection does not apply to any of the following:
   (a) A person described in section 7 of 1984 PA 343, MCL 752.367, a commercial film or photographic print processor acting pursuant to subsection (8) , or a computer technician acting pursuant to subsection (9) .
   (b) A police officer acting within the scope of his or her duties as a police officer.
   (c) An employee or contract agent of the department of social services acting within the scope of his or her duties as an employee or contract agent.
   (d) A judicial officer or judicial employee acting within the scope of his or her duties as a judicial officer or judicial employee.
   (e) A party or witness in a criminal or civil proceeding acting within the scope of that criminal or civil proceeding.
   (f) A physician, psychologist, limited license psychologist, professional counselor, or registered nurse licensed under the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211, acting within the scope of practice for which he or she is licensed.
   (g) A social worker registered in this state under article 15 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16101 to 333.18838, acting within the scope of practice for which he or she is registered.
   (5) Expert testimony as to the age of the child used in a child sexually abusive material or a child sexually abusive activity is admissible as evidence in court and may be a legitimate basis for determining age, if age is not otherwise proven.
   (6) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section that the alleged child is a person who is emancipated by operation of law under section 4(2) of 1968 PA 293, MCL 722.4, as proven by a preponderance of the evidence.
   (7) If a defendant in a prosecution under this section proposes to offer in his or her defense evidence to establish that a depiction that appears to include a child was not, in fact, created using a depiction of any part of an actual person under the age of 18, the defendant shall at the time of the arraignment on the information or within 15 days after arraignment but not less than 10 days before the trial of the case, or at such other time as the court directs, file and serve upon the prosecuting attorney of record a notice in writing of his or her intention to offer that defense. The notice shall contain, as particularly as is known to the defendant or the defendant's attorney, the names of witnesses to be called in behalf of the defendant to establish that defense. The defendant's notice shall include specific information as to the facts that establish that the depiction was not, in fact, created using a depiction of any part of an actual person under the age of 18. Failure to file a timely notice in conformance with this subsection precludes a defendant from offering this defense.
   (8) If a commercial film or photographic print processor reports to  a law enforcement agency having jurisdiction  his or her knowledge or observation, within the scope of his or her professional capacity or employment, of a film, photograph, movie film, videotape, negative, or slide depicting a person that the processor has reason to know or reason to believe is a child engaged in a listed sexual act; furnishes a copy of the film, photograph, movie film, videotape, negative, or slide to  a law enforcement agency having jurisdiction ; or keeps the film, photograph, movie film, videotape, negative, or slide according to the  law enforcement agency's  instructions, both of the following shall apply:
   (a) The identity of the processor shall be confidential, subject to disclosure only with his or her consent or by judicial process.
   (b) If the processor acted in good faith, he or she shall be immune from civil liability that might otherwise be incurred by his or her actions. This immunity extends only to acts described in this subsection.
   (9) If a computer technician reports to a law enforcement agency having jurisdiction his or her knowledge or observation, within the scope of his or her professional capacity or employment, of an electronic visual image, computer-generated image or picture or sound recording depicting a person that the computer technician has reason to know or reason to believe is a child engaged in a listed sexual act; furnishes a copy of that image, picture, or sound recording to the law enforcement agency; or keeps the image, picture, or sound recording according to the law enforcement agency's instructions, both of the following shall apply:
   (a) The identity of the computer technician shall be confidential, subject to disclosure only with his or her consent or by judicial process.
   (b) If the computer technician acted in good faith, he or she shall be immune from civil liability that might otherwise be incurred by his or her actions. This immunity extends only to acts described in this subsection.
   (10) This section applies uniformly throughout the state and all political subdivisions and municipalities in the state.
   (11) A local municipality or political subdivision shall not enact ordinances, nor enforce existing ordinances, rules, or regulations governing child sexually abusive activity or child sexually abusive material as defined by this section.

MCL § 750.335a

§ 750.335a.    Indecent exposure; violation; penalty.

   Sec. 335a. (1)  A  person shall  not  knowingly make any open or indecent exposure of his or her person or of the person of another .

   (2) A person who violates subsection (1) is guilty of a crime, as follows:
   (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) or (c), the person  is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or  both.
   (b) If the person was fondling his or her genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if the person is female, breasts, while violating subsection (1), the person is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine of not more than $2,000.00, or both.
   (c) If the  person was at the time of the  violation  a sexually delinquent person,  the violation is  punishable by imprisonment for an indeterminate term, the minimum of which  is  1 day and the maximum of which  is  life . 
MCL § 750.338

§ 750.338.    Gross indecency; between male persons.

   Sec. 338. Any male person who, in public or in private, commits or is a party to the commission of or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of any act of gross indecency with another male person shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years, or by a fine of not more than $2,500.00, or if such person was at the time of the said offense a sexually delinquent person, may be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for an indeterminate term, the minimum of which shall be 1 day and the maximum of which shall be life.

MCL § 750.349

§ 750.349.    Kidnapping; "restrain" defined; violation as felony; penalty; other violation arising from same transaction.

   Sec. 349.
   (1) A person commits the crime of kidnapping if he or she knowingly restrains another person with the intent to do 1 or more of the following:
   (a) Hold that person for ransom or reward.
   (b) Use that person as a shield or hostage.
   (c) Engage in criminal sexual penetration or criminal sexual contact with that person.
   (d) Take that person outside of this state.
   (e) Hold that person in involuntary servitude.
   (2) As used in this section, "restrain" means to restrict a person's movements or to confine the person so as to interfere with that person's liberty without that person's consent or without legal authority. The restraint does not have to exist for any particular length of time and may be related or incidental to the commission of other criminal acts.
   (3) A person who commits the crime of kidnapping is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for life or any term of years or a fine of not more than $50,000.00, or both.
   (4) This section does not prohibit the person from being charged with, convicted of, or sentenced for any other violation of law arising from the same transaction as the violation of this section. 

MCL § 750.350

§ 750.350.    Leading, taking, carrying away, decoying, or enticing away child under 14; intent; violation as felony; penalty; adoptive or natural parent.

   Sec. 350. (1) A person shall not maliciously, forcibly, or fraudulently lead, take, carry away, decoy, or entice away, any child under the age of 14 years, with the intent to detain or conceal the child from the child's parent or legal guardian, or from the person or persons who have adopted the child, or from any other person having the lawful charge of the child. A person who violates this section is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for life or any term of years.
   (2) An adoptive or natural parent of the child shall not be charged with and convicted for a violation of this section.
MCL § 750.448

§ 750.448.    Soliciting, accosting, or inviting to commit prostitution or immoral act; crime.

   Sec. 448. A person 16 years of age or older who accosts, solicits, or invites another person in a public place or in or from a building or vehicle, by word, gesture, or any other means, to commit prostitution or to do any other lewd or immoral act, is guilty of a crime punishable as provided in section 451.

MCL § 750.455

§ 750.455.    Pandering; felony.

   Sec. 455. Pandering--Any person who shall procure a female inmate for a house of prostitution; or who shall induce, persuade, encourage, inveigle or entice a female person to become a prostitute; or who by promises, threats, violence or by any device or scheme, shall cause, induce, persuade, encourage, take, place, harbor, inveigle or entice a female person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution or assignation place, or any place where prostitution is practiced, encouraged or allowed; or any person who shall, by promises, threats, violence or by any device or scheme, cause, induce, persuade, encourage, inveigle or entice an inmate of a house of prostitution or place of assignation to remain therein as such inmate; or any person who by promises, threats, violence, by any device or scheme, by fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, or having legal charge, shall take, place, harbor, inveigle, entice, persuade, encourage or procure any female person to enter any place within this state in which prostitution is practiced, encouraged or allowed, for the purpose of prostitution; or who shall inveigle, entice, persuade, encourage, or procure any female person to come into this state or to leave this state for the purpose of prostitution; or who upon the pretense of marriage takes or detains a female person for the purpose of sexual intercourse; or who shall receive or give or agree to receive or give any money or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure any female person to become a prostitute or to come into this state or leave this state for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 20 years.

MCL § 750.520b

§ 750.520b.    Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree; felony; consecutive terms.

   Sec. 520b. (1) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree if he or she engages in sexual penetration with another person and if any of the following circumstances exists:
   (a) That other person is under 13 years of age.
   (b) That other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years of age and any of the following:
     (i)  The actor is a member of the same household as the victim.
     (ii)  The actor is related to the victim by blood or affinity to the fourth degree.
     (iii)  The actor is in a position of authority over the victim and used this authority to coerce the victim to submit.
     (iv)  The actor is a teacher, substitute teacher, or administrator of the public or nonpublic school in which that other person is enrolled.
   (c) Sexual penetration occurs under circumstances involving the commission of any other felony.
   (d) The actor is aided or abetted by 1 or more other persons and either of the following circumstances exists:
     (i)  The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless.
     (ii)  The actor uses force or coercion to accomplish the sexual penetration. Force or coercion includes ,  but is not limited to ,  any of the circumstances listed in subdivision  (f) .
   (e) The actor is armed with a weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead the victim to reasonably believe it to be a weapon.
   (f) The actor causes personal injury to the victim and force or coercion is used to accomplish sexual penetration. 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 subdivision, "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  that  are medically recognized as unethical or unacceptable.
     (v)  When the actor, through concealment or by the element of surprise, is able to overcome the victim.
   (g) The actor causes personal injury to the victim, and the actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless.
   (h) That other person is mentally incapable, mentally disabled, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, and any of the following:
     (i)  The actor is related to the victim by blood or affinity to the fourth degree.
     (ii)  The actor is in a position of authority over the victim and used this authority to coerce the victim to submit.
   (2) Criminal sexual conduct in the first degree is a felony punishable as follows:
   (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c),  by imprisonment for life or for any term of years.
   (b) For a violation that is committed by an individual 17 years of age or older against an individual less than 13 years of age by imprisonment for life or any term of years, but not less than 25 years.
   (c) For a violation that is committed by an individual 17 years of age or older against an individual less than 13 years of age, by imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole if the person was previously convicted of a violation of this section or section 520c, 520d, 520e, or 520g committed against an individual less than 13 years of age or a violation of law of the United States, another state or political subdivision substantially corresponding to a violation of this section or section 520c, 520d, 520e, or 520g committed against an individual less than 13 years of age.
   (d) In addition to any other penalty imposed under subdivision (a) or (b), the court shall sentence the defendant to lifetime electronic monitoring under section 520n.
   (3) The court may order a term of imprisonment imposed under this section to be served consecutively to any term of imprisonment imposed for any other criminal offense arising from the same transaction. 

MCL § 750.520c

§ 750.520c.    Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree; felony.

   Sec. 520c. (1) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree if the person engages in sexual contact with another person and if any of the following circumstances exists:
   (a) That other person is under 13 years of age.
   (b) That other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years of age and any of the following:
     (i)  The actor is a member of the same household as the victim.
     (ii)  The actor is related by blood or affinity to the fourth degree to the victim.
     (iii)  The actor is in a position of authority over the victim and the actor used this authority to coerce the victim to submit.
     (iv)  The actor is a teacher, substitute teacher, or administrator of the public or nonpublic school in which that other person is enrolled.
   (c) Sexual contact occurs under circumstances involving the commission of any other felony.
   (d) The actor is aided or abetted by 1 or more other persons and either of the following circumstances exists:
     (i)  The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless.
     (ii)  The actor uses force or coercion to accomplish the sexual contact. Force or coercion includes, but is not limited to, any of the circumstances listed in  section 520b(1)(f) .
   (e) The actor is armed with a weapon, or any article used or fashioned in a manner to lead a person to reasonably believe it to be a weapon.
   (f) The actor causes personal injury to the victim and force or coercion is used to accomplish the sexual contact. Force or coercion includes, but is not limited to, any of the circumstances listed in section  520b(1)(f) .
   (g) The actor causes personal injury to the victim and the actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless.
   (h) That other person is mentally incapable, mentally disabled, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, and any of the following:
     (i)  The actor is related to the victim by blood or affinity to the fourth degree.
     (ii)  The actor is in a position of authority over the victim and used this authority to coerce the victim to submit.
   (i) That other person is under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and the actor is an employee or a contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, the department of corrections who knows that the other person is under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections.
   (j) That other person is under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and the actor is an employee or a contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, a private vendor that operates a youth correctional facility under section 20g of 1953 PA 232, MCL 791.220g, who knows that the other person is under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections.
   (k) That other person is a prisoner or probationer under the jurisdiction of a county for purposes of imprisonment or a work program or other probationary program and the actor is an employee or a contractual employee of or a volunteer with the county or the department of corrections who knows that the other person is under the county's jurisdiction.
   (l) The actor knows or has reason to know that a court has detained the victim in a facility while the victim is awaiting a trial or hearing, or committed the victim to a facility as a result of the victim having been found responsible for committing an act that would be a crime if committed by an adult, and the actor is an employee or contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, the facility in which the victim is detained or to which the victim was committed.
   (2) Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree is a felony punishable  as follows:
   (a) By  imprisonment for not more than 15 years.
   (b) In addition to the penalty specified in subdivision (a), the court shall sentence the defendant to lifetime electronic monitoring under section 520n if the violation involved sexual contact committed by an individual 17 years of age or older against an individual less than 13 years of age. 

MCL § 750.520d

§ 750.520d.    Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree; felony.

   Sec. 520d. (1) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree if the person engages in sexual penetration with another person and if any of the following circumstances exist:
   (a) That other person is at least 13 years of age and under 16 years of age.
   (b) Force or coercion is used to accomplish the sexual penetration. Force or coercion includes but is not limited to any of the circumstances listed in section 520b(1)(f)(i) to (v).
   (c) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless.
   (d) That other person is related to the actor by blood or affinity to the third degree and the sexual penetration occurs under circumstances not otherwise prohibited by this chapter. It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this subdivision that the other person was in a position of authority over the defendant and used this authority to coerce the defendant to violate this subdivision. The defendant has the burden of proving this defense by a preponderance of the evidence. This subdivision does not apply if both persons are lawfully married to each other at the time of the alleged violation.
   (e) That other person is at least 16 years of age but less than 18 years of age and a student at a public or nonpublic school, and the actor is a teacher, substitute teacher, or administrator of that public or nonpublic school. This subdivision does not apply if the other person is emancipated or if both persons are lawfully married to each other at the time of the alleged violation.
   (2) Criminal sexual conduct in the third degree is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 15 years.




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