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      21-3425.   Mistreatment of a confined person. Mistreatment of a confined person is the intentional abuse, neglect or ill-treatment of any person, who is detained or confined and who is physically disabled, mentally ill or mentally retarded or whose detention or confinement is involuntary, by any law enforcement officer or by any person in charge of or employed by the owner or operator of any correctional institution or any public or private hospital or nursing home.

      Mistreatment of a confined person is a class A person misdemeanor.

      History:   L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-3425; L. 1987, ch. 107, § 1; L. 1992, ch. 239, § 64; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 39; July 1.