Statutes | A.S.C.A. ยง 46.3603 | 2018
(a) Whenever in this chapter the criminality of conduct depends upon a victim's being in-capacitated, no crime is committed if the defendant reasonably believed that the victim consented to the act. The defendant has the burden of injecting the issue of belief as to capacity and consent.
(b) Whenever in this chapter the criminality of conduct depends upon a child's being under the age of 14, it is no defense that the defendant believed the child to be 14 years old or older.