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through clothing, bodily fluids, or with an object. It also includes causing or inducing a person, when
consent is not present, similarly to touch or fondle oneself or someone else.
c. Incest: Sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees
wherein marriage is prohibited by the laws of the state in which the incident occurred.
d. Statutory Rape: Sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent under the laws of the state in which the incident occurred, which, under the laws of the State of Illinois,
the age of consent is 17.
ii. Sexual Exploitation
Taking sexual advantage of another person for the benefit of oneself or a third party in any of the following ways or by any of the following means, including via electronic means, methods or devices, includes but not limited to:
● Sexual voyeurism or permitting others to witness or observe the sexual or intimate activity of another person without that person's consent;
● Indecent or lewd exposure or inducing others to expose themselves when consent is not present;
● Recording or taking, without regard to any distribution, photos, imagines, video or the like of (i) any person engaged in sexual or intimate activity or who is naked or otherwise in a state of undress, (ii) who is in a private space or a place where the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy,
and (iii) without that person's consent;
● Distributing in any format, including electronic and via social media, and without regard to who took
or created the same, sexual information or photos, images, videos or the like, of the type described
in 3 above, about or of another person without that person's consent;
● Recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining another person for the purpose of sexual
exploitation;
● Inducing incapacitation in another person with the intent to engage in sexual conduct, regardless
of whether prohibited sexual conduct actually occurs.
iii. Stalking
The following elements constitute stalking:
1. Engaging in a course of conduct, meaning two or more acts, that is directed at a specific person;
and
2. In which a perpetrator – directly, indirectly or through third parties – by any action, method, device
or means, including electronic: follows, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens or communicates to
or about said person or interferes with said person's property; and
3. Such that a reasonable person, meaning one under similar circumstances and with similar identities
to the person to whom in the conduct is directed, would: fear for their safety or the safety of others; or suffer substantial emotional distress, meaning significant mental suffering or anguish regardless of whether such anguish does or does not require medical or other professional treatment or counseling.
Provide all of the foregoing elements are satisfied, the following is a non-exhaustive list of examples of acts that could constitute stalking: following a person; being or remaining in close proximity to a person; entering or remaining on or near a person's property, residence, or place of employment; using electronic devices to monitor, observe or conduct surveillance of a person; threatening, by word or deed, a person; unwelcome, incessant electronic or telephonic communication or electronic posting to or about a person; giving gifts or objects to or leaving items for a person; and interfering with or damaging a person's possessions or pets.
iv. Dating/Domestic Violence
A pattern of physical or psychological actions by one person directed at another in the context of a dating, family of household relations. The following are an example of such acts: Intimidation; harassment; physical abuse, including hitting, slapping, shoving, grabbing, pinching, biting, hair pulling or any act that would constitute a crime of violence under state law; sexual abuse, including rape, attacks on sexual parts of the body, forcing sex after physical violence, treating one in a sexually demeaning manner, coercing or attempting to coerce any sexual contact or behavior without consent; psychological or emotional abuse, including any pattern of behavior undermining an individual's sense of self-worth or self-esteem through
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