A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to establish penalties for certain crimes against children in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction, to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require the States to have similar criminal penalties as a condition of grants under such title I.

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Provides that any person, in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, having custody in law or in fact of a child who abuses or neglects that child shall be sentenced to appropriate counseling in the case of nonsexual abuse and to prison in the case of sexual abuse. Imposes on any individual who has knowledge of a violation of this Act a duty to report such violation to the police. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to condition certain grants thereunder on the adoption by the State of criminal penalties substantially the same as provided in this Act.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 27 June 1977

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