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SECTION 255.25

Incest in the third degree

Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 3, TITLE O, ARTICLE 255

§ 255.25 Incest in the third degree.

A person is guilty of incest in the third degree when he or she
marries or engages in vaginal sexual contact, oral sexual contact or
anal sexual contact with a person whom he or she knows to be related to
him or her, whether through marriage or not, as an ancestor, descendant,
brother or sister of either the whole or the half blood, uncle, aunt,
nephew or niece.

Incest in the third degree is a class E felony.