# Is sodomizing a child legal in some states?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sodomizing-a-child-legal-in-some-states/801721>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 15, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sodomizing-a-child-legal-in-some-states/801721 "2017-11-15T21:25:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Barack\_Obama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Barack\_Obama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barack_Obama)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sodomizing-a-child-legal-in-some-states/801721/1 "2017-11-15T21:25:19Z")

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If a hundred little girls tell their parents that I sodomized them, will I go to jail?

It’s just their word against mine, even if it’s 100 of them if they have no proof then I can’t go to jail right? The entire community could say I’m a pedophile for years, getting sexual with children, never raping them but performing other sex acts towards them. There is no evidence of this besides word of mouth.

What will happen in this situation?

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sodomizing-a-child-legal-in-some-states/801721/2 "2017-11-15T21:31:13Z")

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**Moderating**

Your thread title is so misleading as to verge on trolling. Of course sodomizing a child is not legal in any state. What you are asking is whether personal testimony is sufficient to convict someone without corroborating evidence.

I think your title poisons the well on this question. I suggest that you rephrase the question and open a new thread in Great Debates.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator