The dental hygiene board may seek to obtain an injunction against any RDHAP who provides
services pursuant to this section: If the dental hygiene board has reasonable cause to
believe that the services are being provided to a patient who has not received a prescription for
those services from a dentist or physician and surgeon licensed to practice in this state
providing services pursuant to this section without obtaining a prescription in accordance with
subdivision shall constitute unprofessional conduct on the part of the RDHAP, and reason
for the dental hygiene board to revoke or suspend the license of the RDHAP pursuant to Section
1947
This article shall be known and may be cited as the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act. (b)
The intent and purpose of this article is to: Protect children from abuse and neglect; in any
investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect, all persons participating in the investigation
of the case shall consider the needs of the child victim and shall do whatever is necessary to
prevent psychological harm to the child victim
As used in this article "child" means: a person under the age of 18 years old
As used in this article, "sexual abuse" means sexual assault or sexual exploitation as defined by
the following: "sexual assault" means conduct in violation of one or more of the following
sections: rape, statutory rape, rape in concert, incest, sodomy, oral copulation, lewd or
lascivious acts upon a child, sexual penetration, or child molestation. "Sexual assault" for the
purposes of this article does not include voluntary conduct in violation, if there are no
indicators of abuse, unless the conduct is between a person 21 years of age and a minor under
16 years of age
Conduct described as "sexual assault" includes, but is not limited to, all of the following: 1)
penetration, however slight, of the vagina or anal opening of one person by the penis of
another person, whether or not there is the emission of semen 2) sexual contact between the
genitals or anal opening of one person and the mouth or tongue of another person 3) intrusion
by one person into the genital sor anal opening of another person, including the use of an
object for this purpose, except that, it does not include acts performed for a valid medical
purpose 4) the intentional touching of the genitals or intimate parts including the breasts,
, genital area, groin, inner thighs, and buttocks, or the clothing covering them, of a child, or of
the perpetrator by a child, for purposes of sexual arousal or gratification, except that it does not
include acts which may reasonably be construed to be normal caretaker responsibilities;
interactions with, or demonstrations of affection for, the child; or acts performed for a valid
medical purpose 5) the intentional masturbation of the perpetrator's genitals in the presence of
a child
"sexual exploitation" refers to the following: 1) conduct involving matter depicting a minor
engaged in obscene acts in violation of Section 311.2 (preparing, selling, or distributing obscene
matter) or subdivision (employment of minor to perform obscene acts) 2) a person who
knowingly promotes, aids, or assists, employs, uses, persuades, induces, or coerces a child, or a
person responsible for a child's welfare, who knowingly permits or encourages a child to engage
in, or assist others to engage in, prostitution or a live performance involving obscene sexual
conduct, or to either pose or model alone or with others for purposes of preparing a film,
photographs, negative, slide, drawing, painting, or other pictoral depiction 3) a person who
depicts a child in, or who knowingly develops, duplicates, prints, downloads, streams, accesses
through any electronic or digital media, or exchanges, a film, photograph, videotape, video
recording, negative or slide in which a child is engaged in an act of obscene sexual conduct,
except for those activities by law enforcement and prosecution agencies and other persons
described in subdivisions
"Commercial sexual exploitation" refers to either of the following: 1) the sexual trafficking of
a child, 2) the provision of food, shelter, or payment to a child in exchange for the performance
of any sexual act described in this section
True or False. As used in this article, "neglect" means the negligent treatment or the
maltreatment of a child by a person responsible for the child's welfare under circumstances
indicating harm or threatened harm to the child's health or welfare. The term includes both
acts and omissions on the part of the responsible person True
"sever neglect" means the negligent failure of a person having the care or custody of a child
to protect the child from sever malnutrition ro medically diagnosed nonorganic failure to thrive.
"Severe neglect" also means those situations of neglect where any person having the care or
custody of a child willfully causes or permits the person or health of the child to be placed in a
situation such that his or her person or health is endangered, as proscribed by Section 11165.3
including the intentional failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical care.