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2025 Legislature NC discusses changing protective order rules and elevating child-torture penalty to Class B2 felony
Summary
At a 2025 Legislature NC session, participants discussed proposed changes that would lower standards for issuing protective orders and expand criminal penalties to categorize child torture as a Class B2 felony; no formal votes or final actions were recorded in the transcript excerpt.
The 2025 Legislature NC discussed provisions that would lower the standards for issuing protective orders and expand criminal penalties to classify child torture as a Class B2 felony, according to statements recorded in the session transcript. The meeting record does not show any formal votes or final decisions on the proposals.
Lawmakers and presenters described a second part of the proposal as expanding coverage to include parents and…
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