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2012 Arkansas Code
Title 5 - Criminal Offenses
Subtitle 3 - Offenses Involving Families, Dependents, Etc.
Chapter 26 - Offenses Involving The Family
Subchapter 2 - -- Offenses Generally
§ 5-26-203 - Concealing birth.


AR Code § 5-26-203 (2012) What's This?

(a) A person commits the offense of concealing birth if he or she hides the corpse of a newborn child with purpose to conceal the fact of the child's birth or to prevent a determination of whether the child was born alive.

(b) Concealing birth is a Class D felony.

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