What's the age of consent and drinking laws in Wisconsin?

[Deja Q]

Thanks much.

[PeaceNikki]

1. Age of consent is 16.

Drinking laws are same as everywhere else - age 21 - EXCEPT that a parent can allow a child (of any age) to drink. Establishments can refuse to serve. Parent is responsible to make sure that child doesn't drink and drive (zero tolerance under 21, ANY alcohol consumed while driving under 21 can result in DUI) or get in any other kind of trouble while drinking.

[Deja Q]

2. Thanks for the info.

I wonder if he can be arrested for statutory rape then...

[PeaceNikki]

3. Who?

[mojowork_n]

7. Yeah,

Who?

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I believe age of consent is 18.

It's a misdemeanor to have sex with someone under 18, a felony under 16.

[PeaceNikki]

5. Ah, thanks for the clarification.

Thankfully (or not?), I am well above either.

[sybylla]

6. It has something to do with the age of the "offender" as well

I've been told that sex with someone between 16 & 18 is a different offense if the "offender" is less than two years older and both parties consent.

[getting old in mke]

8. Nope, no age allowances

Whether anyone would prosecuted with a small age difference is something else. There doesn't even need to be an age difference--two seventeen year-olds would both be guilty of Class A misdemeanor, since seventeen is not considered a "child" for purposes of prosecution.

Curiously, as long as there was no one under 18 watching, the only place to keep it a Class A misdemeanor would be in public...though that surely has its own problems in some other section of the statutes. To go to a secluded place would make it a felony as "Child enticement".

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948.09 Sexual intercourse with a child age 16 or older.

Whoever has sexual intercourse with a child who is not the defendant’s spouse and who has attained the age of 16 years is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

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948.07 Child enticement. Whoever, with intent to commit any of the following acts, causes or attempts to cause any child who has not attained the age of 18 years to go into any vehicle, building, room or secluded place is guilty of a Class D felony:

(1) Having sexual contact or sexual intercourse with the child in violation of s. 948.02 or 948.095.
(2) Causing the child to engage in prostitution.
(3) Exposing a sex organ to the child or causing the child to expose a sex organ in violation of s. 948.10.
(4) Recording the child engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
(5) Causing bodily or mental harm to the child.
(6) Giving or selling to the child a controlled substance or controlled substance analog in violation of ch. 961.

[mduffy31]

9. I thought the assembly passed a "Romeo and Juliet" law

so high school seniors wouldn't be prosecuted for having sex with sophomores. I remember a kid got prosecuted somewhere in the Republican part of Wisconsin for getting his 16yr girlfriend pregnant. The family of the girl, and the whole community for that matter, didn't want the kid prosecuted but the DA refused to not go ahead. The poor kid got slapped with a sex offender tag, but on the bright side she was recalled right after.

[sybylla]

10. That's what I was referring to. n/t