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Vermont House amends bill to create felony for abuse of a corpse
Summary
The Vermont House on Feb. 12 amended House Bill 41 to create a felony for knowingly burning, mutilating, disfiguring, dismembering or otherwise destroying a dead body and ordered the bill read a third time; the measure also alters penalties in an existing public-health statute.
The Vermont House of Representatives on Feb. 12 amended House Bill 41, which would create a felony for the abuse of a dead body, and ordered the bill read a third time.
Representative Burditt, the member from West Rutland speaking for the House Judiciary Committee, told the chamber the bill responds to a violent death in Enosburg and described committee testimony from the victim's family. “This was by far the Reader's Digest version of what we heard,” he said, and later called the committee's recorded vote “probably the strongest 11 vote I've seen in my 15 years in the building.”
The bill would create a new criminal statute, described in the draft as 13 V.S.A. § 3761a, prohibiting a person from knowingly and without legal authorization intentionally…
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