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Idaho Code § 18-1506A

Ritualized abuse of a child — Exclusions — Penalties — Definition

I.C., § 18-1506A, as added by 1990, ch. 210, § 1, p. 467; am. 2006, ch. 178, § 4, p. 545.

(1) A person is guilty of a felony when he commits any of the following acts with, upon, or in the presence of a child as part of a ceremony, rite or any similar observance: Actually or in simulation, tortures, mutilates or sacrifices any warm-blooded animal or human being;

(2) Forces ingestion, injection or other application of any narcotic, drug, hallucinogen or anaesthetic for the purpose of dulling sensitivity, cognition, recollection of, or resistance to any criminal activity;

(3) Forces ingestion, or external application, of human or animal urine, feces, flesh, blood, bones, body secretions, nonprescribed drugs or chemical compounds;

(4) Involves the child in a mock, unauthorized or unlawful marriage ceremony with another person or representation of any force or deity, followed by sexual contact with the child;

(5) Places a living child into a coffin or open grave containing a human corpse or remains;

(6) Threatens death or serious harm to a child, his parents, family, pets or friends which instills a well-founded fear in the child that the threat will be carried out; or

(7) Unlawfully dissects, mutilates, or incinerates a human corpse.

(8) The provisions of this section shall not be construed to apply to: Lawful agricultural, animal husbandry, food preparation or wild game hunting and fishing practices and specifically the branding or identification of livestock;

(9) The lawful medical practice of circumcision or any ceremony related thereto; or

(10) Any state or federally approved, licensed or funded research project.

(11) Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a term of not more than life.

(12) For the purposes of this section, “child” means any person under eighteen (18) years of age.

Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.