Under New Jersey law, younger victims may be deemed unable to consent to sexual activity as a legal matter, meaning that consent of the victim is not a defense in cases where the victim is under age 13, or between age 13 and age 16 if the defendant is at least four years’ older.  Further, in cases where the alleged victim is between ages 16 and 18, consent may not be an available defense if certain relationships exist between the alleged victim and the defendant, whether a relation by blood or in cases where the defendant had some sort of supervisory authority over the alleged victim.