ILLINOIS LAW ON RITUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN
The State of Illinois
Public Act #87-1167
Effective January 1, 1993
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Illinois:
RITUALIZED ABUSE OF A CHILD
- A person is guilty of a felony when he commits any of the following
acts with, upon, or in the presence of a child as part of a
ceremony, rite, or similar observance:
- actually or in simulation, tortures, mutilates or sacrifices
any warm-blooded animal or human being;
- forces ingestion, injection or other application of any
narcotic drug, hallucinogen or anaesthetic for the purpose of
dulling sensitivity, cognition, recollection of, or resistance
to any criminal activity;
- forces ingestion or external application of human or animal
urine, feces, flesh, blood, bones, body secretions, non-
prescribed drugs or chemical compounds.
- involves the child in a mock, unauthorized or unlawful marriage
ceremony with another person or representation of any force or
deity, followed by sexual contact with the child;
- places a living child into a coffin or open grave containing a
human corpse or remains;
- threatens death or serious harm to a child, his or her parents,
family, pets, or friends which instills a well-founded fear in
the child that the threat will be carried out; or
- unlawfully dissects, mutilates or incinerates a human corpse.
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