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1. DSS investigates Where a child lives or is found
2. caretaker Any person other than a parent, guardian or
custodian who has responsibility for the health and
welfare of a juvenile in a residential setting.
3. custodian The person or agency that has been awarded legal
custody of a juvenile by a court
4. Dependent juvenile A juvenile in need of assistance or placement because
the
juvenile has no parent, guardian, or custodian
responsible for
the juvenile's care or supervision or whose parent,
guardian, or custodian is unable to provide for the
care or supervision and lacks an appropriate
alternative child care arrangement.
5. Adjudicated Juvenile version of "guilty"
6. Information concerning a protected and secured
juve-nile must be strictly
7. Duty to report Every person has a legal duty to report facts which
lead the person to suspect that a juvenile is
abused, neglected, or dependent, or has died as
the result of maltreatment. The report may be
made orally, by telephone, or in writing.
8. Infant Abandonment Law When a parent abandons an infant less than seven
days of
age by voluntarily delivering the infant to, a law
enforcement
oflcer who is on duty or at a police station or
sheritt's de-partment or an emergency medical
service worker who is on duty or at a fire or
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emergency medical services station without
expressing an intent to return for the infant, that
parent cannot be prosecuted for abandonment of
the child or for unlawful surrender of the child.
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9. DSS has hrs to report abuse
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of a child to law enforcement
10. Law enforcement has hrs
48 to
initiate investigation once
being notified by DSS
11. Any healthcare agency can 12
keep a parent from leaving
with a child for hrs if they
suspect abuse or neglect
12. If you make a DSS report... you have immunity from prosecution and civil suits
13. Indecent Liberties with a
stu-dent Willfully taking or attempting to take any immoral,
improp-er, or indecent liberties with a student for the
purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire;
willfully committing or attempting to commit any
lewd or lavacious act upon or with the body of any
part or member of the body of a student
14. Temporary custody is the taking of physical custody and providing
personal care
and supervision until a court order for non-secure
custody
can be obtained
15. What does constant falls on a weekend or legal holiday
supervi-sion entail? unless a petition or motion for
16. A juvenile taken into
temporary custody SHALL
NOT be for more than hrs
or for more than
hrs if any of the hrs
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