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Miss. Code Ann. § 97-5-1 Abandonment of child under age six
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If the father or mother of any child under the age of six years, or any other person having the lawful custody of such child, or to whom such child shall have been confided, shall expose such child in any highway, street, field, house, outhouse, or elsewhere, with intent wholly t…
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-5-11 Pool room or billiard hall; certain minors prohibited from entering
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No person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be allowed to enter and remain in any poolroom or billiard hall except that municipalities shall have the discretion to establish a lower minimum age. However, no person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be allowed to …
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-5-23 Touching, handling, etc., child, mentally defective or incapacitated person or physically helpless person
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(1) Any person above the age of eighteen (18) years, who, for the purpose of gratifying his or her lust, or indulging his or her depraved licentious sexual desires, shall handle, touch or rub with hands or any part of his or her body or any member thereof, or with any object, any…
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-5-24 Sexual involvement of school employee with student; duty to report; penalties for failure to report; immunity from civil liability for report made in good faith
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If any person eighteen (18) years or older who is employed by any public school district or private school in this state is accused of fondling or having any type of sexual involvement with any child under the age of eighteen (18) years who is enrolled in such school, the princip…