Opinion ID: 1191793
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Sexual assault in the first degree (Count Two)

Text: A person (who is not a health care practitioner, licensed under HRS chs. 453, 455, or 460, performing an act within his or her respective practice, see supra note 2) commits the offense of sexual assault in the first degree, in violation of HRS § 707-730(1)(b), if the person knowingly subjects to sexual penetration another person who is less that fourteen years old. Accordingly, there were three material elements of the offense of sexual assault in the first degree as charged in Count Two of the indictment against Arceo, each of which the prosecution was required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt in order to establish guilt. These three material elements were: (1) that Arceo subjected the Minor to sexual penetration ( i.e., the prohibited conduct, to wit, anal intercourse, fellatio, or the intrusion of Arceo's finger into the Minor's anal opening, see supra note 2); (2) that Arceo was aware that he was doing so ( i.e., the requisite knowing state of mind with respect to the actor's conduct); [10] and (3) that the Minor was less than fourteen years old at the time of the sexual penetration ( i.e., the attendant circumstance of the Minor's age, see supra note 2). [11]