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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) The “treatment program” means a continuum of services provided in community and institutional settings designed to provide early intervention and treatment services for juvenile sexual offenders.
(2) A “juvenile sexual offender” as used in this chapter means an individual who was at the time of the commission of the offense under the age of eighteen (18) years who is not actively psychotic or an individual with an intellectual disability and who has been adjudicated guilty of or has been convicted of or pled guilty to:
(a) A felony under KRS Chapter 510;
(b) Any other felony committed in conjunction with a misdemeanor described in KRS Chapter 510;
(c) Any felony under KRS 506.010 when the crime attempted is a felony or misdemeanor described in KRS Chapter 510;
(d) An offense under KRS 530.020;
(e) An offense under KRS 530.064(1)(a);
(f) An offense under KRS 531.310; or
(g) A misdemeanor offense under KRS Chapter 510.
(3) A “juvenile sexual offender assessment” means an assessment of the child's adolescent social development, medical history, educational history, legal history, family history, substance abuse history, sexual history, treatment history, and recent behaviors, which shall be prepared in order to assist the courts in determining whether the child should be declared a juvenile sexual offender, and to provide information regarding the risk for reoffending and recommendations for treatment.
(4) “Individual with an intellectual disability” as used in this section means a juvenile with a full scale intelligent quotient of seventy (70) or below.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Kentucky Revised Statutes Title LI. Unified Juvenile Code § 635.505.Definitions for chapter - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ky/title-li-unified-juvenile-code/ky-rev-st-sect-635-505/
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