Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) An illegal act of sexual intercourse by an adult with a person under the legal age of consent for sex, or with another adult who is not able to consent because of lack of mental capacity.
WordNet
n. sexual intercourse with a girl who has not reached the age of consent (even if both parties participate willingly) [syn: carnal abuse]
Wikipedia
In some common law jurisdictions, statutory rape is sexual activity in which one of the individuals is below the age required to legally consent to the behavior. Although it usually refers to adults engaging in sex with minors under the age of consent, it is a generic term, and very few jurisdictions use the actual term statutory rape in the language of statutes.
Different jurisdictions use many different statutory terms for the crime, such as sexual assault (SA), rape of a child (ROAC), corruption of a minor (COAM), unlawful sex with a minor (USWAM), carnal knowledge of a minor (CKOAM), unlawful carnal knowledge (UCK), sexual battery or simply carnal knowledge.
In statutory rape, overt force or threat is usually not present. Statutory rape laws presume coercion, because a minor or mentally handicapped adult is legally incapable of giving consent to the act.
The term statutory rape generally refers to sex between an adult and a sexually mature minor past the age of puberty. Sexual relations with a prepubescent child, generically called child sexual abuse or molestation, is typically treated as a more serious crime.
Usage examples of "statutory rape".
I couldn't get much on the statutory rape complainants, except that they were fourteen and blonde and worked at Lockheed during the war.
That evening in the cabin, when they had made love-maybe it was statutory rape to others, but it had been love to the two of them, in those minutes.
Among the dozen arrests that evening, that of Billy Pinks, thirty-two, an unemployed auto body worker charged with assault was later reduced to statutory rape on his plea that the 'provocative message on her T shirt got his juices going' and the admission by the twelve-year-old victim that she had deceitfully led him to believe she was fourteen.
If you must know, I could have done without your telling her that I committed statutory rape on the living room couch with her cousin.