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By her age she IS a minor - if that specific charge is an enhanced penalty offense in your state (i.e.- it is a greater offense to assault a minor than it is to assault an adult) then the assaulter COULD be charged with that offense.

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Q: In a assault charge against an adult on a 17 year old girl concidered an assault on a minor?
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