State v. EDWARD C.

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• thirteen-year-old male babysitter who had sexual intercourse with eight-year-old girl could be prosecuted for gross sexual misconduct under statute prohibiting “a person” from engaging in a sexual act with another person not a spouse and under fourteen
• statute provides that any person can commit gross sexual misconduct; because other statutes specify that the perpetrator must be of a certain age, the Legislature, by omitting a minimum age, did not intend to place an age requirement for gross sexual misconduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).