ABSTRACT
Sexual offences involve interference with the V’s privacy, infringing the most intimate areas of an individual’s personality. They often also involve interference with the V’s bodily integrity. This combination of infringements of the V’s rights makes this type of offence potentially very serious. Thus a touching which would in itself amount only to the most minor battery, may, if deemed to be sexual, become an offence punishable with 10 years imprisonment.1
