This bill revises the offense of child abuse homicide.
This bill:
- corrects the erroneous inclusion of the offense of child torture in the child abuse homicide statute, based on the child torture offense already having been included in the offense of murder;
- provides an immediate effective date; and
- makes technical and conforming changes.
Recommended by: Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 76-5-208