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Custodial sexual misconduct—Defense.
It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under RCW
9A.44.160 or
9A.44.170, to be proven by the defendant by a preponderance of the evidence, that the act of sexual intercourse or sexual contact resulted from forcible compulsion by the other person.