CYNTHIA M. v. Rodney E.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “to recognize the asserted right to recover would be to permit plaintiff to profit by the wrong to which she voluntarily was a party” (quotation omitted)
• noting that consent would preclude recovery arising from sexual battery
• \The different treatment civilly of the concept of consent is striking.\
• Although criminal law does not recognize consent by a person under 18 as a defense, in the civil-arena, consent is a defense. “There is no hard-and-fast rule as to the age at which a person attains the capacity to consent to bodily invasions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).