Article 265 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
Commits the crime of rape whoever by means of physical or moral violence carries out copulation with a person of any sex, imprisonment of from eight to twenty years shall be imposed on him.
For the purposes of this Article, copulation is understood as the introduction of the virile member in the body of the victim by vaginal, anal or oral route, independently of his sex.
It shall also be considered as rape and shall be sanctioned with imprisonment of from eight to twenty years, anyone who introduces by vaginal or anal route any element or instrument different from the virile member, by means of physical or moral violence, whatever the sex of the offended party.