Abuse
(a) means:
(A) Any assault, as defined in ORS chapter 163, of a child and any physical injury to a child which has been caused by other than accidental means, including any injury which appears to be at variance with the explanation given of the injury.
(B) Any mental injury to a child, which shall include only observable and substantial impairment of the child's mental or psychological ability to function caused by cruelty to the child, with due regard to the culture of the child.
(C) Rape of a child, which includes but is not limited to rape, sodomy, unlawful sexual penetration and incest, as those acts are described in ORS chapter 163.
(D) Sexual abuse, as described in ORS chapter 163.
(E) Sexual exploitation, including but not limited to:
(i) Contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor, and any other conduct which allows, employs, authorizes, permits, induces or encourages a child to engage in the performing for people to observe or the photographing, filming, tape recording or other exhibition which, in whole or in part, depicts sexual conduct or contact, sexual abuse involving a child or rape of a child, but not including any conduct which is part of any investigation conducted pursuant to 419B.020 (Duty of department or law enforcement agency receiving report) or which is designed to serve educational or other legitimate purposes AND
(ii) Allowing, permitting, encouraging or hiring a child to engage in prostitution as described in 167.007 (prostitution) or a commercial sex act, to purchase sex with a minor as described in 163.413 (purchasing sex with a minor) or to engage in commercial sexual solicitation as described in 167.008 (prostitution - commercial sexual solicitation).
(F) Negligent treatment or maltreatment of a child, including but not limited to the failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter or medical care that is likely to endanger the health or welfare of the child.
(G) Threatened harm to a child, which means subjecting a child to a substantial risk of harm to the child's health or welfare.
(H) Buying or selling a person under 18 years of age as described in O163.537.
(I) Permitting a person under 18 years of age to enter or remain in or upon premises where methamphetamines are being manufactured.
(J) Unlawful exposure to a controlled substance, or to the unlawful manufacturing of a cannabinoid extract that subjects a child to a substantial risk of harm to the child's health or safety.
(b) Doesn't include reasonable discipline unless the discipline results in one of the conditions described in (a) above.© 2020 - 2021 Ross Dargahi - Disclaimer - About