709.1 Sexual abuse defined.
Any sex act between persons is sexual abuse by either of the persons when the act is performed with the other person in any of the following circumstances:1. The act is done...
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I was talking with my mother recently about the start of the school year. She’s a seventh-grade teacher in northwest Iowa, Estherville. I’m a medical student at the University of Iowa. She and I share...
