Opinion ID: 163641
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Colorado Aggravated Incest Statute

Text: 15 The portion of the statute of conviction under which Vigil entered his guilty plea provides: 16 A person commits aggravated incest when he or she knowingly: 17 (a) Marries his or her natural child or inflicts sexual penetration or sexual intrusion on or subjects to sexual contact, as defined in section 18-3-401, his or her natural child, stepchild, or child by adoption.... For the purpose of this paragraph (a) only, child means a person under twenty-one years of age. 18 Colo.Rev.Stat. § 18-6-302(1)(a). 5 The information to which Vigil pled guilty charged that [b]etween July 2, 1983 and March 31, 1985, Jose Patrick Vigil did unlawfully, knowingly and feloniously inflict sexual penetration upon ... his natural child; In violation of Colorado Revised Statutes 18-6-302. Colorado defines sexual penetration as follows: `Sexual penetration' means sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, analingus, or anal intercourse. Emission need not be proved as an element of any sexual penetration. Any penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime. Colo.Rev. Stat. § 18-3-401(6).