In Greeley and Weld County, Unlawful Sexual Contact is charged when a person is accused of touching another’s intimate parts without permission. Recently, a man was arrested in Northern Colorado after he was accused of groping two women. According to the report, the man approached an unknown woman who was walking on the sidewalk and hit on her. The woman rubbed his advances and walked away. The man came up to her again, groped her and then ran off. Another woman made a comparable claim where she said a man walked up to her and asked to hit her butt. The woman said no and walked away, but he returned and groped her before running off. The two women had similar descriptions and the man was identified and arrested – charged with two counts of Unlawful Sexual Contact.
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How is Unlawful Sexual Contact Charged in Greeley?
In Greeley and across Colorado, Unlawful Sexual Contact – C.R.S. 18-3-404 – is defined as:
(a) The actor knows that the victim does not consent; or
(b) The actor knows that the victim is incapable of appraising the nature of the victim’s conduct; or
(c) The victim is physically helpless and the actor knows that the victim is physically helpless and the victim has not consented; or
(d) The actor has substantially impaired the victim’s power to appraise or control the victim’s conduct by employing, without the victim’s consent, any drug, intoxicant, or other means for the purpose of causing submission; or
(e) Repealed.
(f) The victim is in custody of law or detained in a hospital or other institution and the actor has supervisory or disciplinary authority over the victim and uses this position of authority, unless incident to a lawful search, to coerce the victim to submit; or
(g) The actor engages in treatment or examination of a victim for other than bona fide medical purposes or in a manner substantially inconsistent with reasonable medical practices.
One of the most common subsections for this crime is subsection (a) – regarding no consent. This would definitely be the subsection charged for the man above. The fact that he asked permission and was denied would support that he knew the victims did not consent to the contact. This would not be a case where someone could claim they misread signs.
Firestone and Mead Sentence for Unlawful Sexual Contact
In Firestone and Mead, Unlawful Sexual Contact is charged as a class 1 misdemeanor. This level misdemeanor is punishable by up to 364 days in the Weld County Jail. A conviction of this sex offense would also require registering as a sex offender and completing sex offender treatment.