The six-year graduation rate for students who enrolled in Queens College in 1991 is 39 percent. In general, it is a sex crime to engage in any sexual contact with a person who does not consent, or to engage in sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, or sexual abuse if it is accomplished by forcible compulsion. New York law also defines these acts as crimes if any of them are engaged in with a person who is incapable of consent either because of the person's age or because the person is mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless. Rape Rape in the first degree occurs when a person engages in nonconsensual sexual intercourse with another by physical force, coercion, or threat, or with a person who is incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless or underage.
Sexual intercourse is defined as vaginal penetration.
Rape in the first degree is a class B felony, punishable by up to 25 years in prison. Sodomy Sodomy in the first degree occurs when a person engages in nonconsensual deviate sexual intercourse with another person by physical force, coercion, or threat, or with a person who is physically helpless or underage. Deviate sexual intercourse is defined as oral or anal sexual contact. Sodomy in the first degree is a class B felony, punishable by up to 25 years in prison. Aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree occurs when a person inserts a foreign object into the vagina, urethra, penis or rectum of another person by physical force, coercion, or threat, or does so to a person who is physically helpless or underage.