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A. As used in this section:

1. Enabling child sexual abuse” means the causing, procuring or permitting of a willful or malicious act of child sexual abuse, which includes but is not limited to rape, incest, and lewd or indecent acts or proposals made to a child, as defined by law, by a person responsible for the health, safety, or welfare of a child under the age of eighteen (18) by another.

2. Permit” means to authorize or allow for the care of a child by an individual when the person authorizing or allowing such care knows or reasonably should know that the child will be placed at risk of sexual abuse as proscribed by this subsection.

B. Any parent or other person who willfully or maliciously engages in enabling child sexual abuse commits the criminal offense of enabling child sexual abuse.

C. Any person convicted of committing the criminal offense of enabling child sexual abuse shall be required to register as a sex offender pursuant to 6 ONC § 5-301 et seq., Sex Offender Registration and Notification; and shall be guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment in the Tribal Jail for not more than three years, by a fine not to exceed Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00), or by banishment for a period not less than one year nor more than five years, or any combination of the above. ONCA 22-33, eff. Apr. 25, 2022.