RE: What's your opinion of sharking?
October 15, 2014 at 1:14 pm
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2014 at 1:17 pm by Jenny A.)
(October 15, 2014 at 12:54 am)Zidneya Wrote: Like a minor assault?
Because remember these are boys and teens making this pranks.
It's beyond a prank. But to get all legally technical, it isn't an assault, it's a battery. An assault is merely the threat of battery.
In a nutshell the elements of battery are:
1) an intent to make contact with the plaintiff which reasonable people would consider harmful or offensive to the plaintiff; 2) actual contact with the plaintiff which reasonable people would consider harmful or offensive; 3) plaintiff is actually harmed or offended by the contact.
No doubt the "pranksters" intend to pull at the the victims clothing. Reasonable people would expect that action to be offensive to the victim. The victim is indeed humiliated and offended. Thus battery.
Many states have definitions for rape that include unwanted sexual touching. So there are places this might be some degree of rape as well.
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