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JUVENILE ABUSE
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Juvenile crimes and crimes against children are a major concern for this department. The Juvenile Unit consists of one (1) Sergeant and two (2) Investigators. The unit investigators are specially trained in the skills needed to interview children. The unit maintains a close relationship with the Department of Family and Children Services, the Children's Hospital of the Medical Center of Central Georgia, and the Crescent House. This relationship is so vital that DFACS has assigned one caseworker to work out of the Juvenile Unit's office at City Hall. The primary goal of this unit is to ensure the safety and welfare of children when they are in imminent danger and are unable to care for themselves.
WHAT KIND OF CRIMES DO WE INVESTIGATE?:
- Cruelty to Children: Willfully depriving a child of necessary sustenance and maliciously causing a child cruel of excessive physical mental pain).
- Interference with Child Custody: A person commits the offense of interference with custody when without lawful authority to do so the person knowingly or reckless take or entices any child or committed person away from the individual who has lawful custody of such child or committed person.
- Statutory Rape: Sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16 years.
- Child Molestation: Any immoral or indecent act to or in the presence of or with any child under the age of 16 with intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of either the child or the actor.
- Aggravated Child Molestation: Commission of an act of child molestation which physically injures the child or involves an act of sodomy.
- Enticing a Child for Indecent Purposes: When he or she "solicits, entices, or takes" a child under the age of 16 years to any place for the purpose of molesting the child or committing indecent acts.
- Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor: When such person knowingly or willfully encourages, causes, abets, connives, or aids a minor in committing an act which would cause such minor to be an unruly child.
- Runaway: Any person under the age of 16 who leaves home without lawful authority.
HOW TO REPORT:
Call the Macon Police Department main number at 751-7500 in order to file an incident report. An investigator will be assigned to your case and will contact you within 24 hours. The investigator will give you his/her name and contact number. |
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A Nationally Accredited Law Enforcement Agency
Initial Accreditation: November 20, 1988
Reaccredited: March 17, 2007 |
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