2023 Delaware Code › Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 5. SPECIFIC OFFENSES › Subchapter V. Offenses Relating to Children and Vulnerable Adults › § 1105. Crime against a vulnerable adult.

§ 1105. Crime against a vulnerable adult.
(a) Any person who commits, or attempts to commit, any of the crimes or offenses set forth in subsection (f) of this section against a person who is a vulnerable adult is guilty of a crime against a vulnerable adult.
(b) A crime against a vulnerable adult shall be punished as follows:
(1) If the underlying offense is an unclassified misdemeanor, or a class B misdemeanor, the crime against a vulnerable adult shall be a class A misdemeanor;
(2) If the underlying offense is a class A misdemeanor, the crime against a vulnerable adult shall be a class G felony;
(3) If the underlying offense is a class D, E, F, or G felony, the crime against a vulnerable adult shall be 1 class higher than the underlying offense.
(c) “Vulnerable adult” means a person 18 years of age or older who, by reason of isolation, sickness, debilitation, mental illness or physical, mental or cognitive disability, is easily susceptible to abuse, neglect, mistreatment, intimidation, manipulation, coercion or exploitation. Without limitation, the term “vulnerable adult” includes any adult for whom a guardian or the person or property has been appointed.
(d) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, it is no defense to an offense or sentencing provision set forth in this section that the accused did not know that the victim was a vulnerable adult or that the accused reasonably believed the person was not a vulnerable adult unless the statute defining the underlying offense, or a related statute, expressly provides that knowledge that the victim is a vulnerable adult is a defense.
(e) No person shall be sentenced for both an underlying offense and a crime against a vulnerable adult. No person shall be sentenced for a violation of subsection (a) of this section if the underlying offense, as charged against the accused, has an element that the victim was 62 years of age or older or was an “adult who is impaired” as defined in § 3902 of Title 31.
(f) The following shall be underlying offenses for the purposes of this section:
Title 11:
§ 601
Offensive touching
§ 602(a)
Menacing
§ 602(b)
Aggravated Menacing
§ 603
Reckless endangering in the second degree
§ 604
Reckless endangering in the first degree
§ 605
Abuse of a pregnant female in the second degree
§ 606
Abuse of a pregnant female in the first degree
§ 611
Assault in the third degree
§ 612
Assault in the second degree
§ 621
Terroristic threatening
§ 622
Hoax device
§ 625
Unlawfully administering drugs
§ 626
Unlawfully administering controlled substance or counterfeit substance or narcotic drugs
§ 645
Promoting suicide
§ 763
Sexual harassment
§ 764
Indecent exposure in the second degree
§ 766
Incest
§ 767
Unlawful sexual contact in the third degree
§ 769
Unlawful sexual contact in the first degree
§ 770
Rape in the fourth degree
§ 774
Sexual extortion
§ 780
Female genital mutilation
§ 781
Unlawful imprisonment in the second degree
§ 782
Unlawful imprisonment in the first degree
§ 783
Kidnapping in the second degree
§ 791
Acts constituting coercion
§ 811
Criminal mischief
§ 825
Burglary in the second degree
§ 831
Robbery in the second degree
[Former] § 835
Carjacking in the second degree
§ 841
Theft, except paragraph (c)(3)b.
§ 841A
Theft of a motor vehicle
§ 842
Theft; lost or mislaid property
§ 843
Theft; false pretense
§ 844
Theft; false promise
§ 846
Extortion
§ 848
Misapplication of property
§ 853
Unauthorized use of a vehicle
§ 854
Identity theft
§ 861
Forgery
§ 903
Unlawful use of payment card
§ 909
Securing execution of documents by deception
§ 914
Use of consumer identification information
§ 916
Home improvement fraud
§ 917
New home construction fraud, except paragraph (d)(3)
§ 1001
Bigamy
§ 1311
Harassment
§ 1312
Stalking, except paragraphs (d)(1) and (d)(2)
§ 1335
Violation of privacy
§ 1339
Adulteration
§ 1451
Theft of a firearm
Title 6:
§ 73-604
Securities fraud.
11 Del. C. 1953, §  1105;  58 Del. Laws, c. 497, §  1;  67 Del. Laws, c. 130, §  8;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  77 Del. Laws, c. 416, §  1;  78 Del. Laws, c. 175, §  106;  78 Del. Laws, c. 224, §  15;  79 Del. Laws, c. 260, §  10;  82 Del. Laws, c. 216, § 1;