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Chan790

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19. It defines any intentional injury as abuse.
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 12:13 AM
Feb 2016

People are prosecuted here for corporal punishment under that statute (both as injury and cruel punishment...that's the case law. Corporal punishment is adjudicated as being explicitly abusive under the first (injury by other than accidental means) and last (cruel punishment) clauses) and people who are obligated-reporters that don't call the police to report corporal punishment can be charged with a Class-A misdemeanor. That's how the law cited is interpreted, qua corporal punishment.

Precedent case law based from that statute proves the assertion.

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