OUJI-CR 4-138A
RAPE AND SEX CRIMES - CONSENT OF MINOR
You are instructed that as a matter of law a minor under the age of fourteen/sixteen is incapable of giving consent/agreement to engaging in sexual conduct which is otherwise prohibited by law and the agreement/consent of such minor to such activity should be disregarded by you in determining the question of the defendant's guilt.
Notes on Use
This instruction is appropriate for rape and other sex crimes when the victim is a child below a particular age. This age is fourteen for prosecutions for rape in the first degree and sixteen for prosecutions for rape in the second degree and other sex crimes. See 21 O.S. 2011 & Supp. 2017, §§ 1111-1114.
Committee Comments
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals held in Kimbro v. State, 1990 OK CR 4, ¶¶ 3-4, 857 P.2d 798, 799, that as a matter of law a child under the age of sixteen cannot consent to oral or anal sodomy. In doing so, it overruled Slaughterback v. State, 1979 OK CR 28, 594 P.2d 780.
(2018 Supp.)