Florida Rape Charges

Rape Charges
Bauer Crider & Parry Podcast
Brad: Alright, you are listening to the FloridaDefense.com podcast. We are speaking to Clearwater Rape Defense Attorney, Mike Kenny. Mike, how are you?
Mike: I'm doing well, how are you?
B: Good good. Today, we're going to be talking about rape charges. I kind of set you up for that one so let's talk about
M: Yeah, I just want to correct you real quick. In the State of Florida, we don't have a crime called rape. Now that isn't to say that rape as people understand it isn't prosecuted, it's just that we call it in the State of Florida, sexual battery. Rape is a term that doesn't exist anywhere really in the Statute. And a sexual battery is a crime that's defined as it basically talks about nonconsensual sex. Sexual battery talks about the either penetration of the sexual organ by either a penis, union with a sexual organ with a mouth to either the vagina or the penis, penetration of the anus - it gets pretty specific because sexual battery is ac