SB0024 | Child Abuse and Torture Amendments

This bill: creates a new criminal offense for child torture and provides penalties; adds the offense of child torture to the list of offenses for which imprisonment is
mandatory; amends existing definitions relating to the offenses of child abuse and aggravated criminal child abuse; modifies child abandonment, abuse or neglect of a child with a disability, and other statutes that rely on certain definitions concerning criminal child abuse; includes the offense of child torture in statutes that reference child abuse or aggravated child abuse, including statutes concerning background checks, murder and aggravated murder, child abuse homicide, bigamy, jail release agreements and orders, and adoption, parent-time, and custody statutes; adds the offense of child torture to the definition of "violent felony"; includes the offense of child torture as a registrable offense on the Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry; modifies the definition of "severe type of child abuse or neglect" in the juvenile code to refer to the amended definition of serious injury in the criminal child abuse statute; and makes technical and conforming changes.