Saturday, October 9, 2010

Child Endangerment

(b) (1) Any person who commits an act described in subdivision (a) by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.    (2) Any person who is a caretaker
and commits an act described in subdivision (a) upon a dependent person by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person,with the intent described in subdivision (a), is guilty of a felonyand shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three,
six, or eight years.

This is the second post on child endangerment. This section is stating that anyone who commits one of the above mentioned acts (see previous post)with the use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear is guilty of afelony in which time in prison shall be three, six, or eight years.These are some stiff penalties, however, the state has a very strong andcompelling interest to deter this type of crime. Part (2) states thatif you are the care taken of the dependent person and you commit this type of crime you are looking at three, six or eight years in the stateprison. Once again the state is looking to punish and deter these typesof acts.