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Senate Judiciary Committee reviews amendment to ‘abuse of a dead body’ bill, seeks clarity on fetal remains
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee discussed an amendment to a bill that would create a new offense for abuse of a dead body in Title 13 and debated whether the language could be read to apply to fetal remains; Office of Legislative Council attorney Michelle Childs briefed the committee and recommended clarifying language.
The Senate Judiciary Committee discussed an amendment to legislation that would create a new Title 13 offense for abuse of a dead body and examined whether the bill’s language could be interpreted to apply to fetal remains, Office of Legislative Council attorney Michelle Childs told the committee.
Childs told the committee that the draft creates a new offense in Title 13 with subsection (a) prohibiting anyone from knowingly, “without legal authorization…intentionally burn, mutilate, disfigure, dismember, or destroy the dead body of a person.” She said subsection (b) raises the penalty when the act is done to conceal a crime, and that subsection (d) sets…
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