2014 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
CHAPTER 5. SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Subchapter II Offenses Against the Person
§ 606. Abuse of a pregnant female in the first degree; class B felony
(a) A person is guilty of abuse of a pregnant female in the first degree when in the course of or in furtherance of the commission or attempted commission of assault third degree any violent felony against or upon a pregnant female, or while in immediate flight therefrom, the person intentionally and without her consent causes the unlawful termination of her pregnancy.
(b) It is no defense to a prosecution under this section that the person was unaware that the victim was pregnant.
(c) Prosecution under this section does not preclude prosecution under any other section of the Delaware Code. Abuse of a pregnant female in the first degree is a class B felony.
72 Del. Laws, c. 43, § 4; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;
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