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Home » US Law » 2022 Missouri Revised Statutes » Title XII - Public Health and Welfare » Chapter 188 - Regulation of Abortions » GENERAL PROVISIONS » Section 188.023 – Reports of rape or under age eighteen sexual abuse, required to report, how.

Effective – 28 Aug 2013, 2 histories

188.023. Reports of rape or under age eighteen sexual abuse, required to report, how. — Any licensed health care professional who delivers a baby or performs an abortion, who has prima facie evidence that a patient has been the victim of statutory rape in the first degree or statutory rape in the second degree, or if the patient is under the age of eighteen, that he or she has been a victim of sexual abuse, including rape in the first or second degree, or incest, shall be required to report such offenses in the same manner as provided for by section 210.115.

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(L. 2006 H.B. 1698, et al., A.L. 2013 H.B. 215)