The 188th General Court of
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Session Laws
CHAPTER 187 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE INCAPACITY OF A CHILD UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE TO CONSENT TO AN INDECENT ASSAULT AND BATTERY.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:
+qSection 13B@q of +pchapter 265@p of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1984 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-
In a prosecution under this section, a child under the age of fourteen years shall be deemed incapable of consenting to any conduct of the defendant for which said defendant is being prosecuted.