California AB1739 criminalizes sexual exploitation by clergy providing therapeutic services.
California AB1739 amends the Penal Code to include clergy providing therapeutic services within the definition of sexual exploitation. This includes acts of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, or sexual contact with a current or former patient, client, or member of the congregation within two years following termination of therapeutic services, if the relationship was terminated primarily for the purpose of engaging in those acts.
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