A responsible person who shall torture, willfully abuse, willfully mistreat, cruelly beat, or otherwise willfully maltreat any child under the age of 18 years, on conviction, shall be guilty of a Class C felony.
Ala. Code § 26-15-3
Torture, Willful Abuse, Etc., of Child Under 18 Years of Age by Responsible Person.
Known as the Alabama Child Abuse Act
The act spans §§ 26-15-1 to 26-15-4 (7 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Commonwealth v. Raposo (1992)
Most recently applied in Ibarra v. Holder (July 2013)
(Acts 1977, No. 502, p. 658, §3; Act 2006-531, p. 1224, §1; Act 2023-466, §1.)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.