Sexual offences

Virginity and defloration :

 Virginity :
“It is the state of a female who has never had
experience with sexual act.”
 Defloration :
loss of virginity
“Defloration is the condition of the female
who has had previous sexual intercourse.”
 Medicolegal importance :
 Nullity of marriage – marriage never to have existed
in law.A marriage can be nullified when either party
was under the age of marriage contract,when one
party was a mental defective at the time of marriage.
 Divorce – dissolution of previously valid marriage.
 Defamation – to damage the reputation,character or
good name of by slander or libel.
 Rape
 Cause of rupture of hymen:
 Sexual intercourse
 Accidental trauma
 Masturbation
 Medical examination or surgical operations
 Sanitory tampons
 Ulcerations from any diseased conditions
 Differences :
Hymen Intact,firm,enelas torn,elastic
tic
Admit only one
finger
Breast Firm,elastic,non Large,flabby,pen
pendulous dulus
Labia majora Lie in close Not so
opposition
Labia minora Are in contact, Not in
covered by contact,seperated
 Sexual offences :
 Rape :
“ unlawful sexual intercourse by a man with a
woman other than his wife, without her
consent by force, fear or fraud.”
 Legally :
“Unnatural sexual intercourse by a man with
his own wife below the age of 15 years or with
any other woman below the age of 16 years
with or without her consent, or any other
woman at or above the age of 16 years without
her consent and against her will (except his
own wife ) or with her consent taken by some
unlawful means is known as rape.”
 What constitutes rape ??
 Slightest penetration of the penis with in the
vulva with or without emission of semen or
rupture of hymen – RAPE..
 Don’t give opinion whether …
 Just mention negative facts
 Age of rapist :
 No age limit
 England : > 14 years
 Age of victim:
 Commonly children / adolescent girls.
 Complications :
 Shock
 Hemorrhage
 Sepsis
 Suffocation
 Strangulation
 Mental derangement
 Pregnancy
 Medical evidence :
 Mark of general violence on victim or accused
 Marks of local violence on the genitalia of the
victim
 Presence of stain of semen or blood on the
clothing of the victim or the person accused
 Presence of seminal matter in the vagina
 Rape of infants and children :
 Signs of general violence :
absent in infants
few in children
 Signs of local violence :

depends upon the degree of penetration

 Adolescent girls :
 Marks of general violence :
present
 Marks of local violence :

swelling ,inflammation
lacerated or torn hymen
in recent case :
margin of the torn hymen red ,swollen and painful.
stain of blood ,semen may be found over the pubic
hair, genitals or clothing
 Adult victims :
 Signs of general voilence are more marked
than adolescent girl
 Local violence more or less similar
 Married woman:
 Signs of general violence
more marked
 Signs of local violence
only proof is that penetration has occurred :
spermatozoa in the vagina
 Positive signs of rape:
 Presence of spermatozoa in the vagina, pubic
hair or clothes.
 Veneral infections
 Evidence of struggle
 False charge of rape :
 For the purpose of revenge, blackmail etc.
 Women

 Blunt instruments,

foreign bodies
 Examination of the victim of rape :
 2 parts :
1. preliminary requirements
2. medical examination proper
 1. preliminary requirements:
- requisition
-written consent of the victim
-written consent from her parents, guardians
-presence of female attendant ,..MUST
-passport size photo attested by herself
 2. medical examination proper:
a.-case ref. no. & date
-time of examination
-name, age of the victim
-name of parent, guardian
-marital status, occupation,address.
-name of the police officer
-name of nurse or female attendant
-signature of them
-menstrual history
 ask the victim to undress herself
 Two identification marks
 Examination of clothes
 General examination
physical appearance
height
wt
secondary sexual characters
development of vagina
injuries on the body
vitals
 Examination of the private parts:
-stain of semen or blood over the genitalia & pubic
hair
fibres of clothes
-collection of vaginal swab & smear for chemical
analysis
-evidence of bruising, laceration,swelling on labia
majora and minora
-evidence for venereal infection
- nail, bite, scratch mark in the breast or in the face
- examination of uterus per abdomen and bimanually
 If suggestive of rape:
 From above data , my opinion is that she has
had forcible intercourse and her present age
is….. years.
Before that …
Examination of the male accused of
rape:
 Obtain consent
 Detail general history
 Observe – behavior, state of dress etc
 Examine clothing
 Full general examination
 Detail genital examination
 Sign of injury.. Face, bite mark ,local
 Adultery :
 Sexual intercourse between member of one
spouse and the member of another spouse with
consent is known as adultery.

 Doctor’s adultery :
improper association by a doctor with his
patient or near relatives of the patient to whom
he is implied.
 Indecent assault :
 If any girl forcefully tries to perform sexual
intercourse with a boy it is termed as indecent
assault.
 In case of male :

indecent assault is any offence committed on a

female with a intent or knowledge to outrage
her modesty.
eg.?/
 Incest :
 Sexual intercourse between closely blood
related person that their marriage is illegal
 Cause :

mental defectives
alcohol
cerebral disease
separation
Unnatural offences :
 Sodomy :
 Buggery
 Anal intercourse between two males or
between a male and a female.
 Peaderasty
 Catamite
 podophilia
 Medico legal :
- punishable ; with consent or with out consent
even if the passive agent was accuser's wife
 Examination :
difficult
soon after the crime
active agents :
-peculiar smell of anal gland
-blood and seminal stain
-abrasions or tearing
passive agent (habitual):
-thickened skin
-funnel shaped depression of buttocks
passive agent (non habitual ):
-inflammation
-muscles loss tone and elasticity
-blood stain around anus
-tenderness
 Tribadism :
 Lesbianism
 Female homosexual

Examination :
very difficult
 Bestiality :
 With a domestic animal
 Sheep's/cows/dogs/chicken
 Mentally ill person
 Examination :
accused :
-may be contaminated with the animal faeces
-mark of injury
-smell
animal :
-human spermatozoa
- injuries
 Buccal coitus :

 Per mouth
 Victim :
usually young child
punishable
 Examination :
finding rare
mark of teeth on penis
semen in the stomach
 Sexual perversions:
 Sadism
 Masochism
 Necrophilia
 Fetichism
 Transvestism ( Eonism)
 Exhibitionism
 Voyeurism
 Frotteurism
 Undinism
 Pyramania
 Podophilia
 Nosophilia
 Sexual perversions are act to obtain sexual
pleasure without sexual intercourse.
 1.Sadism :
 French noble man ‘Marquis de sade’
 It is the form of sexual perversion in which the
infliction of pain and torture act as sexual
stimulant.
 Most common in men
 Sadist
 Bite, beat, torture etc.
 Medico legal importance :
divorce
 2.Masochism :
 In w/c gratification is obtained or increased by
suffering of pain.
 Leopard von sachef- masoch
 Opposite sadism
 3. Necrophilia :
 Desire for sexual intercourse with dead bodies
 male
 4.Fetichism :
 Use of abnormal stimulants or objects
 Shoes, ornaments, garments, cigarette smoking
 5.Transvestism :
 By wearing the clothes of opposite sex.
 A practice of adopting of cloth or sexual role
of the opposite sex
 6.Exhibitionism :
 It is a willful and intentional exposure of the
genital organs in public place in the presence
of others to obtain sexual pleasure.
 Esp. males
 7.Voyeurism :
 Scoptophilia
 Peeping tom
 By observing the sexual intercourse of others
 Divorce/public nuisance
 8.Frotteurism:
 By rubbing his private part against a female’s
body.
 9.Undinism :
 By seeing the urination of others, may be same
or opposite sex.
 10.Pyromania :
 Sexual pleasure by seeing the flame or
destruction of building.
 11.Podophilia :
 By seeing the foot of opposite sex
 12.Nosophilia :
 Seeing the nose of opposite sex.
 Gerontophilia
Paraphilia of being sexually attracted by
seeing adult.
-opposite of pedophilia
by seeing prepubescent children
 Coprophilia
use of faces for sexual excitement

Nymphomania
excessive sexual desire and behaviour by
female
 Lust murder
it is a homocide in which the offender
mutilates the sexual organs or areas of the
victim’s body