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2025 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
Chapter 9. ABUSE OF CHILDREN
Subchapter I. Reports and Investigations of Abuse and Neglect
§ 913. Child under treatment by spiritual means not neglected.
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§ 913. Child under treatment by spiritual means not neglected.
No child who in good faith is under treatment solely by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination by a duly accredited practitioner thereof shall for that reason alone be considered a neglected child for the purposes of this chapter.
16 Del. C. 1953, § 1006; 58 Del. Laws, c. 154; 60 Del. Laws, c. 494, § 1;
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