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2005 SESSION
051239828Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 18.2-361 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 18.2-361. Crimes against nature.
A. If any person carnally knows in any manner any brute animal,
or carnally knows any male or female person by the anus or by or with the
mouth, or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, he or she
shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony, except as
provided in subsection B.
B. Any person who carnally knows by the anus or by or with the
mouth his daughter or granddaughter, son or grandson, brother or sister, or
father or mother shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony. However, if a parent or
grandparent commits any such act with his child or grandchild and such child or
grandchild is at least thirteen 13 but
less than eighteen 18 years of age at the time of the offense, such parent or
grandparent shall be guilty of a Class 3 felony.