Extorsión sexual en Minnesota

Explicación Simple

La extorsión sexual es cuando alguien te obliga a tener contacto sexual amenazándote con hacerte daño de alguna forma. Esto puede incluir cosas como amenazar con perjudicar tu trabajo o compartir fotos privadas sin tu permiso.

Es como si un amigo te dijera que si no le prestas tu videojuego, va a contar un secreto que sabes que no quieres que nadie sepa. Te está forzando a hacer algo que no quieres hacer.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Carla, una asistente administrativa, es presionada por su jefe, Miguel, para tener relaciones sexuales. Miguel le amenaza con despedirla si no accede a sus demandas, lo que representa un caso claro de extorsión sexual.

Penalidades

Las consecuencias pueden incluir penas de cárcel y multas, dependiendo de la gravedad del caso.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

(a) A person who engages in sexual contact with another person and compels the other person to submit to the contact by making any of the following threats, directly or indirectly, is guilty of sexual extortion: (1) a threat to withhold or harm the complainant's trade, business, profession, position, employment, or calling; (2) a threat to make or cause to be made a criminal charge against the complainant, whether true or false; (3) a threat to report the complainant's immigration status to immigration or law enforcement authorities; (4) a threat to disseminate private sexual images of the complainant as specified in section617.261, nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images; (5) a threat to expose information that the actor knows the complainant wishes to keep confidential; or (6) a threat to withhold complainant's housing, or to cause complainant a loss or disadvantage in the complainant's housing, or a change in the cost of complainant's housing. (b) A person who engages in sexual penetration with another person and compels the other person to submit to such penetration by making any of the following threats, directly or indirectly, is guilty of sexual extortion: (1) a threat to withhold or harm the complainant's trade, business, profession, position, employment, or calling; (2) a threat to make or cause to be made a criminal charge against the complainant, whether true or false;