CH 5- Child Endangerment Flashcards
Reckless endangerment of a child ROA
In presence bop
What are the two types of reckless endangerment of a child
Action - ANYONE who recklessly engaged in conduct that creates substantial risk of bodily or sexual abuse to someone under 18
Inaction - LEGAL DUTY TO ACT - don’t act and sub risk of BI or SA
Case - leading police on a wild chase with your kid in the car and fleeing to the woods
Good
Case - not restraining child in a seatbelt and they get hurt in a crash
No - negligent only
Case- throwing a chair at your wife while she is holding the baby but you miss
Good
Case- punching wife in the face while she is holding the baby
Good
Case- not providing care to 10 month old infant who has weeks of cough and breathing issues - dies
Good
Case - parent leaves hair straightener in accessible place knowing the baby likes to play with it - burning hot- waits to bring baby to hosptial for 24 hours
Good on action and inaction
Case- dropping baby on the floor and not bringing it to hospital after it cries for 20 min
Good
Case- not providing child with cancer medicine on purpose and they die
Good
Case - passing out drunk in a car with a loaded gun on front seat with kids in car
Good
Case - walking on train tracks with child while drunk
Good
Case- permitting teens to drink alcohol til they get I’ll then doing nothing about it and placing an IV the next morning without permission
Good
Case - overwhelming marijuana smoke
Good
Is selling drugs in the home enough to be child endangerment
No - must be more
Case- child eats Suboxone pill left out by accident, father immediately brings to ER
No
Case- keeping loose drugs in a drawer kids love to go into and they take them
Good
Case - bloody needles in a diaper bag next to a baby
No
Case - mom sleeping and wakes up to notice the child is gone and door is open, goes back to sleep after looking for 5 min
Yes
Case- striking a child with a belt, what’re the two charges
ABDW and reckless endangerment
What happens if you charge RE and you put down the wrong reasoning , ex - at risk of sexual abuse when it’s supposed to be SBI
Dismissed
Sex offenders level of certainty
Clear and convincing evidence
Sex offender definition
One who works, lives, or attends college in MA and is
- convicted or adjudicated of a sex offense
- released from probabtion, parole,DCF
- adjudicated sexually dangerous
Definition - person who has been convicted of or adjudicated of sexually violent offense and suffers from mental abnormality making them likely to engage in sexual violence
Sexually violent predator
Definition - person who has been convicted of or adjudicated of sexually violent offense and suffers from mental abnormality making them likely to engage in sexual violence
Sexually violent predator
Registration duty violations (4)
Failure to register
Failure to verify reg info
Failure to notify address change
Provides false info