A person is guilty of unlawful sexual contact in the third degree when the person has sexual contact with another person or causes the victim to have sexual contact with the person or a third person and the person knows that the contact is either offensive to the victim or occurs without the victim’s consent.

Attorney's Note

Under the Delaware Code, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Class A misdemeanorup to 1 yearup to $2,300
For details, see Del. Code Ann.tit. 11, § 4206

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Unlawful sexual contact in the third degree is a class A misdemeanor.

11 Del. C. 1953, § ?761; 58 Del. Laws, c. 497, § ?1; 65 Del. Laws, c. 494, § ?1; 66 Del. Laws, c. 269, § ?19; 67 Del. Laws, c. 130, § ?8; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;