17 2026 ANNUAL SECURITY & FIRE SAFETY REPORT • Consent to Bodily Injury (18 Pa.C.S. § 311(b)): When conduct is charged to constitute an offense because it causes or threatens bodily injury, consent to such conduct or to the infliction of such injury is a defense if: 1. The conduct and the injury are reasonably foreseeable hazards of joint participation in a lawful athletic contest or competitive sport; or 2. The consent establishes a justification for the conduct under Chapter 5 of this title (relating to general principles of justification). • Ineffective Consent (18 Pa.C.S. § 311(c)): Assent does not constitute consent if: 1. It is given by a person who is legally incapacitated to authorize the conduct charged to constitute the offense; 2. It is given by a person who by reason of youth, mental disease or defect, or intoxication is manifestly unable or known by the actor to be unable to make a reasonable judgment as to the nature or harmfulness of the conduct; 3. It is given by a person whose improvident consent is sought to be prevented by the law defining the offense; or 4. It is induced by force, duress, or deception of a kind sought to be prevented by the law defining the offense. Comparative Legal & Clery Definitions Sexual Assault & Rape • Pennsylvania Law (Sexual Assault): Occurs when a person engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with a complainant without the complainant’s consent. • Pennsylvania Law (Rape): Occurs when a person engages in sexual intercourse with a complainant: (1) by forcible compulsion; (2) by threat of forcible compulsion that would prevent resistance by a person of reasonable resolution; (3) who is unconscious or where the person knows that the complainant is unaware that the sexual intercourse is occurring; (4) where the person has substantially impaired the complainant’s power to appraise or control conduct by administering drugs, intoxicants, or other means without the complainant’s knowledge; or (5) who suffers from a mental disability rendering them incapable of consent. • Clery Act (Sexual Assault): Any sexual act directed against another person, without consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent. Includes Rape, Fondling, Incest, and Statutory Rape. • Clery Act (Rape): The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim (includes all genders). Domestic Violence • Pennsylvania Law: Domestic Violence is not defined as a standalone criminal statute in Pennsylvania. Under the Protection From Abuse (PFA) Act, “abuse” is defined as any of the following acts between family/ household members, intimate partners, or co-parents: 1. Attempting to cause, or intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury, serious bodily injury, rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, or incest. 2. Placing another in reasonable fear of imminent serious bodily injury. 3. Inflicting false imprisonment (18 Pa.C.S. § 2903). 4. Physically or sexually abusing minor children. 5. Knowingly engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly committing acts toward another (including stalking/following) under circumstances placing the person in reasonable fear of bodily injury. • Clery Act: A felony or misdemeanor crime of violence committed by a current or former spouse or intimate partner; a person with whom the victim shares a child in common; a person cohabitating with or who has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner; a person similarly situated to a spouse under domestic violence laws; or any other person protected under domestic/family violence laws of the jurisdiction. Dating Violence • Pennsylvania Law: Dating Violence is not specifically defined by Pennsylvania state criminal statute. • Clery Act: Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim. Existence of such a relationship is determined based on the reporting party’s statement, considering relationship length, type, and frequency of interaction. Includes physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, or economic abuse, or threats thereof. Stalking • Pennsylvania Law (18 Pa.C.S. § 2709.1): Occurs when a person: (1) engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts toward another person (including following) demonstrating an intent to place such person in reasonable fear of bodily injury or
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