Article 261 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE FIFTEEN. Crimes against Liberty and Normal Psychosexual Development · Chapter I. Sexual Harassment, Sexual Abuse, Statutory Rape and Rape
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
On anyone who commits the crime of sexual abuse in a person minor of eighteen years of age or in a person who does not have the capacity to comprehend the meaning of the act, even with his consent, or who for any cause cannot resist it or obliges him to execute it on himself or in another person, a penalty of from six to thirteen years of imprisonment and up to five hundred days fine shall be imposed.
If violence is used, the penalty shall be increased by one half more in its minimum and maximum.
The penalties provided in this Article shall be increased in accordance with what is provided in Article 266 Bis.