The Vermont Statutes Online
The Vermont Statutes Online have been updated to include the actions of the 2023 session of the General Assembly.
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Title 13 : Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 072 : Sexual Assault
Subchapter 001 : Crimes; Trial
(Cite as: 13 V.S.A. § 3257)-
§ 3257. Sexual exploitation of a person under the supervision of the Department of Corrections
(a) A correctional employee, contractor, or other person providing services to offenders on behalf of the Department of Corrections or pursuant to a court order or in accordance with a condition of parole, probation, supervised community sentence, or furlough shall not engage in a sexual act with:
(1) a person who the employee, contractor, or other person providing services knows is confined to a correctional facility; or
(2) any offender being supervised by the Department of Corrections while on parole, probation, supervised community sentence, or furlough, where the employee, contractor, or other service provider knows or reasonably should have known that the offender is being supervised by the Department, unless the offender and the employee, contractor, or person providing services were married, parties to a civil union, or engaged in a consensual sexual relationship at the time of sentencing for the offense for which the offender is being supervised by the Department.
(b) A person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall be imprisoned for not more than five years or fined not more than $10,000.00, or both. (Added 2005, No. 177 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2021, No. 56, § 6.)
