South Dakota legal term
Child in South Dakota Criminal Law
Current through 2026 South Dakota legislative session
In South Dakota criminal law, “Child” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the South Dakota criminal code.
What does “Child” mean in South Dakota criminal law?
(3) "Child" or "minor," any person under the age of eighteen years; (3A) "Child-like sex doll," any obscene anatomical doll, obscene anatomical mannequin, or obscene anatomical robot that is intentionally designed to resemble a prepubescent child and either to entice sexual excitement or to engage in prohibited sexual acts; (4) "Computer," any electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high-speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions and includes any data storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in conjunct (SDCL § 22-24A-2)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Enticing away a child
- Purchasing or possessing child-like sex doll
- Taking, enticing away, or keeping of unmarried minor child by parent
- Aggravated criminal battery of an unborn child
- Aggravated incest
- Causing child to be present where methamphetamines used, distributed, or manufactured as misdemeanor
- Contributing to abuse, neglect, or delinquency or causing child to become child in need of supervision as misdemeanor
- Criminal battery of an unborn child
- Failure to notify law enforcement of death of child
- Failure to notify law enforcement that child is missing
- Fetal homicide
- Homicide as manslaughter in first degree
Related terms in the same statutes
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