1.
FBI Statistics:
Oklahoma state population is: 3,791,508
The number of violent crimes reported is: 13,040
The number of forcible rapes reported is: 996
2.
Oklahoma Statue of Limitations:
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Incest and forcible sodomy are both felonies.
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Sexual battery is a felony.
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Lewd or
indecent proposals or an act upon a child under 16 is a felony.
Rape is considered a first degree
crime:
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if the
offender is over the age of 18 and the victim and the victim is under the age
of 14
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if the
victim is intoxicated and the offender knows this and uses this to his
advantage
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if the offender uses force or violence to
execute crime
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Offender
commits rape by instrumentation that results in bodily harm
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Offender
commits rape by instrumentation, and victim is under 14
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Otherwise,
rape is in the second degree
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If convicted of 1st degree murder, it
is punishable by death or life in a state penitentiary in Oklahoma.
3.
Oklahoma Definition of Rape:
A.
Rape is an act of sexual intercourse involving vaginal or anal
penetration accomplished with a male or female who is not the spouse of the
perpetrator and who may be of the same or the opposite sex as the perpetrator
under any of the following circumstances:
1. Where the victim is under sixteen (16) years of age;
2. Where the victim is incapable through mental illness or any other unsoundness of mind, whether temporary or permanent, of giving legal consent;
3. Where force or violence is used or threatened, accompanied by apparent power of execution to the victim or to another person;
4. Where the victim is intoxicated by a narcotic or anesthetic agent, administered by or with the privities of the accused as a means of forcing the victim to submit;
5. Where the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act and this fact is known to the accused;
6. Where the victim submits to sexual intercourse under the belief that the person committing the act is a spouse, and this belief is induced by artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused or by the accused in collusion with the spouse with intent to induce that belief. In all cases of collusion between the accused and the spouse to accomplish such act, both the spouse and the accused, upon conviction, shall be deemed guilty of rape;
7. Where the victim is under the legal custody or supervision of a state agency, a federal agency, a county, a municipality or a political subdivision and engages in sexual intercourse with a state, federal, county, municipal or political subdivision employee or an employee of a contractor of the state, the federal government, a county, a municipality or a political subdivision that exercises authority over the victim; or
8. Where the victim is at least sixteen (16) years of age and is less than twenty (20) years of age and is a student, or under the legal custody or supervision of any public or private elementary or secondary school, junior high or high school, or public vocational school, and engages in sexual intercourse with a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and is an employee of the same school system.
B. Rape is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a male or female who is the spouse of the perpetrator if force or violence is used or threatened, accompanied by apparent power of execution to the victim or to another person.
1. Where the victim is under sixteen (16) years of age;
2. Where the victim is incapable through mental illness or any other unsoundness of mind, whether temporary or permanent, of giving legal consent;
3. Where force or violence is used or threatened, accompanied by apparent power of execution to the victim or to another person;
4. Where the victim is intoxicated by a narcotic or anesthetic agent, administered by or with the privities of the accused as a means of forcing the victim to submit;
5. Where the victim is at the time unconscious of the nature of the act and this fact is known to the accused;
6. Where the victim submits to sexual intercourse under the belief that the person committing the act is a spouse, and this belief is induced by artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused or by the accused in collusion with the spouse with intent to induce that belief. In all cases of collusion between the accused and the spouse to accomplish such act, both the spouse and the accused, upon conviction, shall be deemed guilty of rape;
7. Where the victim is under the legal custody or supervision of a state agency, a federal agency, a county, a municipality or a political subdivision and engages in sexual intercourse with a state, federal, county, municipal or political subdivision employee or an employee of a contractor of the state, the federal government, a county, a municipality or a political subdivision that exercises authority over the victim; or
8. Where the victim is at least sixteen (16) years of age and is less than twenty (20) years of age and is a student, or under the legal custody or supervision of any public or private elementary or secondary school, junior high or high school, or public vocational school, and engages in sexual intercourse with a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and is an employee of the same school system.
B. Rape is an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a male or female who is the spouse of the perpetrator if force or violence is used or threatened, accompanied by apparent power of execution to the victim or to another person.
4.
OKLAHOMA: “Bail denied for Oklahoma man in
Wisconsin sexual assault case”
A name Glendon Gouker (41) is accused of sexual assaulting a woman in 1990
and killing two people in 1992. His two victims were Tanna Togstad (23) and Tim
Mumbrue (35). He is accused of stabbing
both victims to death. He appeared in court earlier this month and they denied
his bail due to the severity of the charges. He has yet to be sentenced for his
crimes.
5. (MEDIA) OKLAHOMA COALITION: AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
An organization that helps people
fight and cope with previous violence such as rape, abuse, incest, intimate
partner violence, domestic violence, etc.
(MEDIA) Christina Aguilera-Fighter
-Ending violence against women-
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