State v. Green Although defendant did not touch the victim, when he ordered her – at gunpoint – to undress and to insert her own fingers into her vagina, defendant participated in the action by directing the victim. Given that the text of our statutes does not explicitly exclude instances such as the one in this case and the persuasive trend in other courts is to recognize coerced self-penetration as a sexual offense, we hold that the act of forcing a victim to self-penetrate constitutes “engag[ing] in a sexual act ... with another person ... and against the will of the other person.” G.S. § 14-27.4(a).
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