§ 28-2. Causing or encouraging minors to commit misdemeanors, etc.

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Any person eighteen (18) years of age or older, including the parent of any child, who shall cause or encourage any child under the age of eighteen (18) years to commit any misdemeanor, or who shall send or cause any such child to go into any place for any unlawful purpose, or who shall in any way subject any such child to vicious or immoral influences, or who shall induce, cause, encourage or contribute toward the dependency, neglect or delinquency of any such child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. When the offense consists of having or attempting to have intercourse with any female child under the age of eighteen (18) years, the fact that such female was not of previous chaste character or had been married may be shown in mitigation.
State Law reference— Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 18.2-371.

State law reference

Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 18.2-371.

                    
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