South Carolina Code § 16-3-830

Reasonable belief as to majority of child as affirmative defense.
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It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this article that the defendant, in good faith, reasonably believed that the person who engaged in the sexual conduct was eighteen years of age or older.

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