A child I know is a victim of incest. 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. The therapeutic definition, focuses less upon the biological or legal relationship between the parties but rather about the imbalance of power or betrayal of trust issues. A. Incest is incest even if both parties had an orgasm. If you were forced into sexual contact or were too young to consent, then the incest is abuse whether or not you have an orgasm. It is important to remember that our bodies are designed to respond to touching and other stimuli and may do so even if we do not want it.