Whoever forcibly molests or insults women shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and the limitation of prosecution shall be five years; Whoever gathers people to fight or molests or insults women in public places shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and the statute of limitations shall be 15 years. It should be noted that those who evade investigation or trial after the people's procuratorate, public security organ or state security organ files a case for investigation or the people's court accepts the case are not limited by the time limit for prosecution; If the victim files a complaint within the time limit for prosecution, the people's court, the people's procuratorate or the public security organ shall file a case but not file it, and it is not limited by the time limit for prosecution. Therefore, in our country, the limitation of prosecution is rarely applied to criminal cases.
What is the crime of indecency?
First of all, compulsory indecency and rape constitute two crimes, and there must be two acts, one is indecency and the other is rape. If an obscene act is committed in the course of rape, then rape is committed, and then rape is automatically stopped out of conscience, which may constitute rape. If no damage is caused, the punishment shall be exempted; if damage is caused, the punishment shall be mitigated. If there are two acts that exist in different space, time and objects, it may constitute several crimes. Article 236 of China's criminal law stipulates that whoever rapes a woman by violence, coercion or other means shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years. Whoever rapes a girl under the age of 14 shall be given a heavier punishment for rape.
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Legal basis: Article 87 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC): Crimes that exceed the following time limit shall not be prosecuted:
(1) Five years have passed if the statutory maximum penalty is less than five years of fixed-term imprisonment;
(2) Ten years if the statutory maximum penalty is fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years;
(3) Fifteen years if the statutory maximum penalty is fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years;
(4) Twenty years have passed if the maximum legal punishment is life imprisonment or death penalty. 20 years later, if it is deemed necessary to prosecute, it shall be submitted to the Supreme People's Procuratorate for approval.