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Article 620 — Rape.
Revised Criminal Code (English)
Article text
(1) Whoever compels a woman to submit to sexual intercourse outside wedlock, whether by the use of violence or grave intimidation, or after having rendered her unconscious or incapable of resistance, is punishable with rigorous imprisonment from five years to fifteen years.
(2) Where the crime is committed:
a) on a young woman between thirteen and eighteen years of age; or
b) on an inmate of an alms-house or asylum or any establishment of health, education, correction, detention or internment which is under the direction, supervision or authority of the accused person, or on anyone who is under the supervision or control of or dependant upon him; or
c) on a woman incapable of understanding the nature or consequences of the act, or of resisting the act, due to old- age, physical or mental illness, depression or any other reason; or
d) by a number of men acting in concert, or by subjecting the victim to act of cruelty or sadism, the punishment shall be rigorous imprisonment from five years to twenty years.
(3) Where the rape has caused grave physical or mental injury or death, the punishment shall be life imprisonment.
(4) Where the rape is related to illegal restraint or abduction of the victim, or where communicable disease has been transmitted to her, the relevant provisions of this Code shall apply concurrently.
Article 6
Exception: Application of the More Favourable Law.