NY Penal Law § 130.96: Predatory Sexual Assault Against a Child
This is described in New York Penal Code § 130.96 as a criminal offense that involves committing one of these crimes:
- criminal sexual act in the first degree,
- rape in the first degree,
- aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree, or
- course of sexual conduct against a child who is younger than 13 years old, and you are at least 18 years old.
As predatory sexual assault against a child is one of the most egregious sex crimes, it is one of the only two sex crime that are grouped with the class A-II felonies.
