Nevada has a long sexual crime list with various sexual activities considered criminal sex offenses under Nevada law. The severity of the consequences depends on the crime, but most come with high fines, jail time, and registration on the sex offender list. The most common types of sex crimes in Nevada include the following:
- Incest – Incest is defined as marriage or sexual relations between two relatives closer than second cousins.
- Voyeurism – Also known as “peeping,” voyeurism involves going onto another person’s property with the intent to look through their windows, doors, or other openings.
- Rape – Sexual assault, or rape, involves engaging in penetrative sex with a non-consenting individual or someone legally incapable of consent, usually using force.
- Sodomy – Historically, sodomy referred to any penetrative sexual act other than vaginal intercourse. Today, the crime of sodomy in Nevada only prohibits public acts of oral or anal sex.
- Bestiality – When a human knowingly performs a sex act on an animal, it’s referred to as bestiality.
- Prostitution – This crime is the performance of a sex act on another person for compensation or other exchange of benefits. Prostitution is legal in licensed brothels in several counties in Nevada. Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, currently prohibits prostitution.
- Sexual harassment – Sexual harassment can involve making offensive comments of a sexual nature or regarding a person’s sex or gender. It also includes making unwanted sexual advances or requesting sexual favors in exchange for favorable treatment.
- Sex trafficking – Sex trafficking is defined as forcing someone to engage in prostitution, including holding or transporting someone to engage in prostitution. This crime usually involves threats, force, violence, duress, coercion, or intimidation.
- Indecent exposure – Indecent exposure is when someone exposes their intimate parts in public or a private place visible to the public.
- Child molestation – This crime involves engaging in acts of sexual contact or touching intimate parts with a child aged 15 or younger.
- Child exploitation – In Nevada, “child exploitation” is a catch-all crime that outlaws any sexual abuse of a minor that is not otherwise outlawed by another criminal offense.
- Solicitation of prostitution – Nevada law prohibits the solicitation of prostitution services outside of any licensed brothel in the state.
- Sexual extortion – This crime occurs when someone uses threats or coercion to force a person to engage in sexual acts.
- Statutory sexual seduction – Also known as statutory rape, statutory sexual seduction involves any act of sexual penetration between someone at least 18 years old and a minor who is 14 or 15 and more than four years younger than the adult. The offense can be charged even if both parties consented.
- Unlawful dissemination of an intimate image – Nevada prohibits taking an image of another person’s private area without their consent and under circumstances where the other person had a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Charged with a Sex Crime in Las Vegas, NV? Talk to Our Experienced Sex Crimes Attorneys Today
If you have been charged with one of these or another sex offender crime in Las Vegas, contact Adras & Altig, Attorneys at Law today as soon as possible for a free, confidential consultation. You can speak with our experienced sex crimes attorneys about your legal options. Our attorneys use a team-based approach to every case we handle, focusing on obtaining the best possible results for you.
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