Restraining Orders

For the purposes of getting a protection order, “sexual violence” means an act, attempted act, or threatened act of unwanted or nonconsensual sexual behavior, including:

1. sexual assault, sexual assault on a child, including sexual assault by someone in a position of trust, or sexual assault on a client by a psychotherapist;
2. unlawful sexual contact;
3. enticement of a child;
4. incest or aggravated incest;
5. human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude;
6. sexual exploitation of children or procurement of a child for sexual exploitation;
7. indecent exposure;
8. soliciting for child prostitution, pandering of a child, procurement of a child, keeping a place of child prostitution, pimping of a child, inducement of child prostitution, patronizing a prostituted child;
9. internet luring of a child, if it is a class 4 felony only;
10. internet sexual exploitation of a child;
11. public indecency, if the conditions in section(2)(b) are met and if a second offense is committed within five years of the previous offense or a third or subsequent offense is committed;
12. invasion of privacy for sexual gratification;
13. unlawful electronic sexual communication by a person in a position of trust; or
14. unlawful sexual conduct by a peace officer.¹

Included in the definition of sexual assault in #1 above is what is commonly known as “statutory rape.” This is when the sexual act is “consensual”, the parties are not married, and the ages of the parties are as follows:

¹ Colo. Rev. Stat. §§ 13-14-101(2.9); 16-11.7-102(3)
² Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-3-402(1)(d)-(e)