2021 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII - Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 210 - Child Protection and Reformation
Section 210.118 - Court finding of abuse by preponderance of evidence, responsible party to be listed in registry — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 2016

210.118. Court finding of abuse by preponderance of evidence, responsible party to be listed in registry — procedure. — 1. Except for actions under the uniform parentage act, sections 210.817 to 210.852, in any action under chapter 210 or 211 in which the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that a party is responsible for child abuse or neglect, as those terms are defined in section 210.110, the clerk shall send a certified copy of the judgment or order to the children's division and to the appropriate prosecuting attorney. Upon receipt of the order, the children's division shall list the individual as a perpetrator of child abuse or neglect in the central registry.

2. In every case in which the person has pled guilty to or been found guilty of:

(1) A crime under section 565.020, 565.021, 565.023, 565.024, 565.050, 566.030, 566.060, or 567.050 and the victim is a child under eighteen years of age;

(2) Any other crime in chapter 566 if the victim is a child under eighteen years of age and the perpetrator is twenty-one years of age or older;

(3) A crime under section 568.020, 568.030, 568.045, 568.050, 568.060, 568.080^*, 568.090^*, 573.023, 573.025, 573.035, 573.037, 573.040, 573.200, or 573.205; or

(4) An attempt to commit any such crimes;

­­the court shall enter an order directing the children's division to list the individual as a perpetrator of child abuse or neglect in the central registry. The clerk shall send a certified copy of the order to the children's division. Upon receipt of the order, the children's division shall list the individual as a perpetrator of child abuse or neglect in the central registry.

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(L. 2016 H.B. 1877)

*Section 568.080 was transferred to section 573.200 and section 568.090 was transferred to section 573.205 by S.B. 491, 2014, effective 1-01-17.