Establishes the crime of aggravated endangering the welfare of a child as a crime punishable as a class C felony; includes acting in a manner likely to be injurious to the mental, physical or moral welfare of a child and failure to exercise due diligence in the control of a child to prevent a child from being abused.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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968
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 22, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of aggravated
endangering the welfare of a child
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 260.12 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 260.12 Aggravated endangering the welfare of a child.
4 A person is guilty of aggravated endangering the welfare of a child
5 when:
6 1. He or she knowingly acts in a manner likely to be injurious to the
7 physical, mental or moral welfare of a male child less than sixteen
8 years old or a female child less than seventeen years old or directs or
9 authorizes such child to engage in an occupation involving a substantial
10 risk of danger to his or her life or health and such conduct results in
11 serious physical injury to such child; or
12 2. Being a parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the
13 care or custody of a child less than eighteen years old, he or she fails
14 or refuses to exercise reasonable diligence in the control of such child
15 to prevent him or her from becoming an "abused child," a "neglected
16 child," a "juvenile delinquent" or a "person in need of supervision," as
17 those terms are defined in articles ten, three and seven of the family
18 court act and such conduct results in serious physical injury to such
19 child.
20 Aggravated endangering the welfare of a child is a class C felony.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
22 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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