Assault of a child in the third degree.
Known as the Washington Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 9–9 (401 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 14 Wash. App. 2d 748 - State Of Washington v. Katrina R. Loos (2020)
Most recently applied in 16 Wash. App. 2d 16 - State Of Washington v. Damion Ray Birge And Jesse Jahner (January 2021)
1992 c 145 s 3.
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.
(1) A person eighteen years of age or older is guilty of the crime of assault of a child in the third degree if the child is under the age of thirteen and the person commits the crime of assault in the third degree as defined in RCW 9A.36.031(1) (d) or (f) against the child.
(2) Assault of a child in the third degree is a class C felony.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.