Definition of "statutory rape" []

• Sexual relations with a person who has not reached the statutory age of consent. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Just consider the statistical odds of these scenarios ever working out: 1. Jake Ryan and Samantha Baker in Sixteen Candles: Jake was college bound and was about ten minutes from the statutory rape of sixteen-year-old ingenue Samantha Baker."
• "Although most judges don’t publicly sing the praises of statutory rape as these two did—indeed, Judge Gaeta later was investigated and reprimanded by the New Jersey Supreme Court—many regular Americans apparently agree with them."