Any person who, by any act, causes, encourages, or contributes to the abuse, the neglect, or the delinquency of a child, or any person, other than a parent who, by any act, causes a child to become a child in need of supervision, as such phrases with reference to children are defined by chapters 26-7A, 26-8A, 26-8B, and 26-8C, or who is, in any manner, responsible therefor, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
S.D. Codified Laws § 26-9-1
Contributing to abuse, neglect, or delinquency or causing child to become child in need of supervision as misdemeanor
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case State v. Livingood (2018)
Most recently applied in Hunter v. S.D. Dept. of Soc. Servs. (March 2019)
Source: SDC 1939, § 43.9901; SL 1988, ch 214; SL 1993, ch 206, § 1.
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Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.