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Incest involving a child is a form of child abuse.
The exact relationships included within the meaning of these definitions varies depending upon what nation's laws are applied. Even within one nation, the United States, the laws vary from state to state. A person is guilty of incest when he or she marries or engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with a person whom he or she knows to be related to him or her, either legitimately or out of wedlock, as an ancestor, descendant, brother or sister of either the whole or the half blood, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece. Incest is a class E felony. Note that New York does not forbid marriage between cousins although other states do.