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Subcommittee backs raising age for 'homicide by child abuse' to 18
Summary
The subcommittee voted to advance a bill to expand the state's homicide-by-child-abuse law from victims under 11 to victims under 18, citing prosecutorial difficulties proving malice in prolonged-abuse cases involving older children and infants with severe neglect.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee voted to report favorably a bill that would raise the age threshold for the offense of homicide by child abuse from 11 years old to under 18, allowing prosecutors to charge caretakers for deaths caused by acts or omissions against older children that currently fall outside the existing statutory age range.
Madison, staff to the committee, said the measure would allow a person to be charged with homicide by…
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