2016 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 635 - PUBLIC OFFENDERS .510 Criteria for classification as juvenile sexual offender -- Juvenile sexual offender assessment.
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635.510 Criteria for classification as juvenile sexual offender -- Juvenile sexual
offender assessment.
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(2)
(3)
A child, thirteen (13) years of age or older at the time of the commission of the
offense, shall be declared a juvenile sexual offender if the child has been
adjudicated guilty of an offense listed in KRS 635.505(2)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f).
(a) A child, less than thirteen (13) years of age, may be declared a juvenile sexual
offender if the child has been adjudicated guilty of an offense listed in KRS
635.505(2).
(b) Any child, thirteen (13) years of age or older, may be declared a juvenile
sexual offender if the child has been adjudicated guilty of an offense listed in
KRS 635.505(2)(g).
Upon final adjudication by the juvenile court under subsection (2) of this section,
the juvenile court judge shall order a juvenile sexual offender assessment to be
conducted on the child by the Department of Juvenile Justice treatment program or
by a qualified professional approved by the program which shall recommend
whether the child be declared a sexual offender and receive sexual offender
treatment. Upon receipt of the findings of the assessment, the juvenile court judge
shall determine whether the child shall be declared a juvenile sexual offender, and,
if so, shall initiate a referral to the Department of Juvenile Justice treatment
program for treatment.
Effective: July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 182, sec. 54, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended
2004 Ky. Acts ch. 160, sec. 7, effective July 13, 2004. -- Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch.
263, sec. 9, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 538, sec. 15,
effective April 13, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 358, sec. 62, effective July
15, 1997. -- Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 94, sec. 7, effective July 15, 1994.
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