Section 35-42-4-8 - Sexual battery(a) A person who, with intent to arouse or satisfy the person's own sexual desires or the sexual desires of another person:(1) touches another person when that person is:(A) compelled to submit to the touching by force or the imminent threat of force; or(B) so mentally disabled or deficient that consent to the touching cannot be given; or(2) touches another person's genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast when that person is unaware that the touching is occurring; commits sexual battery, a Level 6 felony.
(b) An offense described in subsection (a) is a Level 4 felony if:(1) it is committed by using or threatening the use of deadly force;(2) it is committed while armed with a deadly weapon; or(3) the commission of the offense is facilitated by furnishing the victim, without the victim's knowledge, with a drug (as defined in IC 16-42-19-2(1)) or a controlled substance (as defined in IC 35-48-1-9) or knowing that the victim was furnished with the drug or controlled substance without the victim's knowledge.Amended by P.L. 158-2013, SEC. 444, eff. 7/1/2014.Amended by P.L. 72-2012, SEC. 4, eff. 7/1/2012.As added by P.L. 322-1987, SEC.2. Amended by P.L. 31-1998, SEC.7.