21-5601 Endangering a child; aggravated endangering a child.
21-5601. Endangering a child; aggravated endangering a child. (a) Endangering a child is knowingly and unreasonably causing or permitting a child under the age of 18 years to be placed in a situation in which the child’s life, body or health may be endangered. (b) Aggravated endangering a child is: (1) Recklessly causing or permitting […]
21-5602 Abuse of a child.
21-5602. Abuse of a child. (a) Abuse of a child is knowingly: (1) Torturing or cruelly beating any child under the age of 18 years; (2) shaking any child under the age of 18 years which results in great bodily harm to the child; or (3) inflicting cruel and inhuman corporal punishment upon any child […]
21-5603 Contributing to a child’s misconduct or deprivation.
21-5603. Contributing to a child’s misconduct or deprivation. (a) Contributing to a child’s misconduct or deprivation is: (1) Knowingly causing or encouraging a child under 18 years of age to become or remain a child in need of care as defined by the revised Kansas code for care of children; (2) knowingly causing or encouraging […]
21-5604 Incest; aggravated incest.
21-5604. Incest; aggravated incest. (a) Incest is marriage to or engaging in otherwise lawful sexual intercourse or sodomy, as defined in K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-5501, and amendments thereto, with a person who is 18 or more years of age and who is known to the offender to be related to the offender as any of […]
21-5605 Abandonment of a child; aggravated abandonment of a child.
21-5605. Abandonment of a child; aggravated abandonment of a child. (a) Abandonment of a child is leaving a child under the age of 16 years, in a place where such child may suffer because of neglect by the parent, guardian or other person to whom the care and custody of such child shall have been […]
21-5606 Criminal nonsupport.
21-5606. Criminal nonsupport. (a) Criminal nonsupport is: (1) A parent’s failure, neglect or refusal without lawful excuse to provide for the support and maintenance of the parent’s child in necessitous circumstances; or (2) a person’s failure, without just cause, to provide for the support of such person’s spouse in necessitous circumstances. (b) Criminal nonsupport is […]
21-5607 Furnishing alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage to a minor; furnishing alcoholic beverage to a minor for illicit purposes.
21-5607. Furnishing alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage to a minor; furnishing alcoholic beverage to a minor for illicit purposes. (a) Furnishing alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage to a minor is recklessly, directly or indirectly, buying for or distributing any alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage to any minor. (b) Furnishing alcoholic beverages to […]
21-5608 Unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage.
21-5608. Unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage. (a) Unlawfully hosting minors consuming alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage is recklessly permitting a person’s residence or any land, building, structure or room owned, occupied or procured by such person to be used by an invitee of such person or an invitee of […]
21-5609 Bigamy.
21-5609. Bigamy. (a) Bigamy is any of the following: (1) Marriage within this state by any person who has another spouse living at the time of such marriage; (2) marriage within this state by an unmarried person to a person known to such unmarried person to be the spouse of some other person; or (3) […]
21-5610 Unlawful possession of a visual depiction of a child.
21-5610. Unlawful possession of a visual depiction of a child. (a) Unlawful possession of a visual depiction of a child is knowingly possessing a visual depiction of a child 12 years of age or older but less than 16 years of age in a state of nudity, if committed by a person less than 19 […]