Louisiana § RS 14:93.2.3 - Second degree cruelty to juveniles
Full text of Louisiana Louisiana Civil Code § RS 14:93.2.3 — Second degree cruelty to juveniles, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ RS 14:93.2.3. Second degree cruelty to juveniles
A.(1) Second degree cruelty to juveniles is the intentional or criminally negligent mistreatment or neglect by anyone over the age of seventeen to any child under the age of seventeen which causes serious bodily injury or neurological impairment to that child.
(2) Repealed by Acts 2019, No. 2, §3.
B. The providing of treatment by a parent or tutor in accordance with the tenets of a well-recognized religious method of healing, in lieu of medical treatment, shall not for that reason alone be considered to be intentional or criminally negligent mistreatment or neglect and shall be an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this Section.
C. Whoever commits the crime of second degree cruelty to juveniles shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than forty years.
Acts 1999, No. 191, §1; Acts 2019, No. 2, §3.
Source: official Louisiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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