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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing
5Section 31-4 and adding Section 10-10 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/10-10 new)
7    Sec. 10-10. Failure to report the death or disappearance of
8a child under 13 years of age.
9    (a) A parent, legal guardian, or caretaker of a child under
1013 years of age commits failure to report the death or
11disappearance of a child under 13 years of age when he or she
12knows or should know and fails to report the child as missing
13or deceased to a law enforcement agency within 24 hours if the
14parent, legal guardian, or caretaker reasonably believes that
15the child is missing or deceased. In the case of a child under
16the age of 2 years, the reporting requirement is reduced to no
17more than one hour.
18    (b) A parent, legal guardian, or caretaker of a child under
1913 years of age must report the death of the child to the law
20enforcement agency of the county where the child's corpse was
21found if the parent, legal guardian, or caretaker reasonably
22believes that the death of the child was caused by a homicide,
23accident, or other suspicious circumstance.

 

 

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1    (c) A parent, legal guardian, or caretaker does not commit
2the offense of failure to report the death or disappearance of
3a child under 13 years of age when:
4        (1) the failure to report is due to an act of God, act
5    of war, or inability of a law enforcement agency to receive
6    a report of the disappearance of a child;
7        (2) the parent, legal guardian, or caretaker calls 911
8    to report the disappearance of the child;
9        (3) the parent, legal guardian, or caretaker knows that
10    the child is under the care of another parent, family
11    member, relative, friend, or baby sitter; or
12        (4) the parent, legal guardian, or caretaker is
13    hospitalized, in a coma, or is otherwise seriously
14    physically or mentally impaired as to prevent the person
15    from reporting the death or disappearance.
16    (d) Sentence. A violation of this Section is a Class 4
17felony.
 
18    (720 ILCS 5/31-4)  (from Ch. 38, par. 31-4)
19    Sec. 31-4. Obstructing justice.
20    (a) A person obstructs justice when, with intent to prevent
21the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or defense of any
22person, he or she knowingly commits any of the following acts:
23        (1) (a) Destroys, alters, conceals or disguises
24    physical evidence, plants false evidence, furnishes false
25    information; or

 

 

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1        (2) (b) Induces a witness having knowledge material to
2    the subject at issue to leave the State or conceal himself
3    or herself; or
4        (3) (c) Possessing knowledge material to the subject at
5    issue, he or she leaves the State or conceals himself; or
6        (4) If a parent, legal guardian, or caretaker of a
7    child under 13 years of age reports materially false
8    information to a law enforcement agency, medical examiner,
9    coroner, State's Attorney, or other governmental agency
10    during an investigation of the disappearance or death of a
11    child under circumstances described in subsection (a) or
12    (b) of Section 10-10 of this Code.
13    (b) (d) Sentence.
14        (1) Obstructing justice is a Class 4 felony, except as
15    provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection (b) (d).
16        (2) Obstructing justice in furtherance of streetgang
17    related or gang-related activity, as defined in Section 10
18    of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention
19    Act, is a Class 3 felony.
20(Source: P.A. 90-363, eff. 1-1-98.)