Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 25 - STATE BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE › Subchapter J - CHILD ABUSE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS › GENERAL › Section 25.401 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
						  subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						  otherwise:
Bodily injury
-Impairment of physical
						  condition or substantial pain.
Child
-An individual under 18 years of
						  age.
Child abuse
-Intentionally, knowingly
						  or recklessly doing any of the following:
(i) Causing bodily injury to a child through
						any recent act or failure to act.
(ii) Fabricating, feigning or intentionally
						exaggerating or inducing a medical symptom or disease which results in a
						potentially harmful medical evaluation or treatment to the child through any
						recent act.
(iii) Causing or
						substantially contributing to serious mental injury to a child through any act
						or failure to act or a series of such acts or failures to act.
(iv) Causing sexual abuse or exploitation of
						a child through any act or failure to act.
(v) Creating a reasonable likelihood of
						bodily injury to a child through any recent act or failure to act.
(vi) Creating a likelihood of sexual abuse or
						exploitation of a child through any recent act or failure to act.
(vii) Causing serious physical neglect of a
						child.
(viii) Engaging in any of
						the following recent acts:
(A) Kicking,
						biting, throwing, burning, stabbing or cutting a child in a manner that
						endangers the child.
(B)
						Unreasonably restraining or confining a child, based on consideration of the
						method, location or the duration of the restraint or confinement.
(C) Forcefully shaking a child under 1 year
						of age.
(D) Forcefully slapping or
						otherwise striking a child under 1 year of age.
(E) Interfering with the breathing of a
						child.
(F) Causing a child to be
						present at a location while a violation of
						18 Pa.C.S. §
														7508.2
						(relating to operation of methamphetamine laboratory) is occurring, provided
						that the violation is being investigated by law enforcement.
(G) Leaving a child unsupervised with an
						individual, other than the child's parent, who the actor knows or reasonably
						should have known:
(I) Is required to
						register as a Tier II or Tier III sexual offender under 42 Pa.C.S. Chapter 97,
						Subchapter H (relating to registration of sexual offenders), when the victim of
						the sexual offense was under 18 years of age when the crime was
						committed.
(II) Has been determined
						to be a sexually violent predator under
						42 Pa.C.S. §
															9799.24
						(relating to assessments) or any of its predecessors.
(III) Has been determined to be a sexually
						violent delinquent child as defined in
						42 Pa.C.S. §
															9799.12
						(relating to definitions).
(IV) Has
						been determined to be a sexually violent predator under
						42 Pa.C.S. §
															9799.58
						(relating to assessments) or has to register for life under
						42 Pa.C.S. §
															9799.55(b) (relating to
						registration).