(B) An adult who engages in an act
of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor at least two years younger than the adult is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed five thousand dollars ($ 5,000).
The best documentary I saw at Sundance this year was Marina Zenovich's Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, an examination of the 1977 case in which the director of «Rosemary's Baby» and «Chinatown» was convicted of
unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and subsequently fled the country to avoid possible jail time.
He initially pleaded not guilty, but later accepted a plea bargain that admitted guilt of the lesser charge
of unlawful sexual intercourse, before fleeing to France ahead of sentencing.
Polanski fled United States in 1978 after pleading guilty to
unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.
The director is still evading sentencing after pleading guilty to
unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor in 1977.
The phrase «of chaste life» appears in a bill passed on June 25, 1886: Whoever induces any person under the age of eighteen years of chaste life and conversation to have
unlawful sexual intercourse shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, common jail, or house of correction not exceeding three years or by fine not exceeding one thousand...