Article 272 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE FIFTEEN. Crimes against Liberty and Normal Psychosexual Development · CHAPTER III. Incest
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
There shall be sanctioned with a penalty of from one to six years of imprisonment, the crime of incest when the ascendants have sexual relations with their descendants, as long as the latter are of legal age.
When the victim is a minor, the conduct shall always be understood as constituting the crime of rape.