§ 26-11A-24.  Definitions

Statutes | S.D. Codified Laws § 26-11A-24

Terms used in this chapter mean: (1) "Abuse," any act or failure to act by an employee of a juvenile corrections facility or by a contract person or entity providing services to a juvenile corrections facility, which act was performed or was failed to be performed, knowingly, recklessly, or...

§ 26-11A-22.  Notice to victim of discharge or conditional release

Statutes | S.D. Codified Laws § 26-11A-22

Fifteen days before conditionally releasing a juvenile to an aftercare supervision program or discharging a juvenile from the Department of Corrections, the secretary of corrections shall send notice of intent to conditionally release or discharge the juvenile to the committing court and to the...

§ 26-11A-20. Discharge for good conduct or by age

Statutes | S.D. Codified Laws § 26-11A-20

The secretary of corrections may discharge a juvenile from the Department of Corrections upon the following: (1) As a reward for good conduct and upon satisfactory evidence of reformation (2) As a result of a conviction for a new crime as an adult, if the juvenile is placed on adult probation or...

§ 26-10-34.  Affirmative defenses.

Statutes | S.D. Codified Laws § 26-10-34

It is an affirmative defense to the offense of juvenile sexting that the minor has not solicited the visual depiction, that the minor does not subsequently distribute, present, transmit, post, print, disseminate, or exchange the visual depiction, and that the minor deletes or destroys the...

§ 26-10-33.  Prohibition against minors engaging in computer sexting.

Statutes | S.D. Codified Laws § 26-10-33

No minor, as defined in subdivision 26-7A-1(21), may intentionally create, produce, distribute, present, transmit, post, exchange, disseminate, or possess, through any computer or digital media, any photograph or digitized image or any visual depiction of a minor in any condition of nudity, as...

§ 26-10-31.  Knowingly causing a child to be present where any person is using, distributing, or manufacturing methamphetamines as a misdemeanor.

Statutes | S.D. Codified Laws § 26-10-31

It is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly cause a child to be present where any person is using, distributing, or manufacturing methamphetamines.

§ 26-10-29.  Action for damages for childhood sexual abuse -- Childhood sexual abuse defined.

Statutes | S.D. Codified Laws § 26-10-29

As used in §§ 26-10-25 to 26-10-29, inclusive, childhood sexual abuse is any act committed by the defendant against the complainant who was less than eighteen years of age at the time of the act and which act would have been a violation of chapter 22-22 or prior laws of similar...

§ 26-10-27.  Action for damages for childhood sexual abuse -- Imputed knowledge.

Statutes | S.D. Codified Laws § 26-10-27

The knowledge of a custodial parent or guardian may not be imputed to a person under the age of eighteen years for the purposes of §§ 26-10-25 to 26-10-29, inclusive. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE...

§ 26-10-26.  Action for damages for childhood sexual abuse -- Date of discovery.

Statutes | S.D. Codified Laws § 26-10-26

The victim need not establish which act in a series of continuing sexual abuse or exploitation incidents caused the injury complained of, but may compute the date of discovery from the date of discovery of the last act by the same perpetrator which is part of a common course of conduct of...

§ 26-10-25. Time limit on civil action arising out of sexual abuse of child

Statutes | S.D. Codified Laws § 26-10-25

Any civil action based on intentional conduct brought by any person for recovery of damages for injury suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse shall be commenced within three years of the act alleged to have caused the injury or condition, or three years of the time the victim discovered...