Legal
This section contains legal terminology and definitions which might become relevant as the case against the Mahadorthy is built. I am also including some personal notes which might be worth considering.
Term
Adultery
Legal Definition
"Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and another person who is not their married spouse."
Note: Adultery used to be illegal in all USA states. Now, it has been decriminalized in about half of the USA. In Iowa, not only is it not a crime, but it rarely plays a large role in civil cases anymore, even when adultery was involved in the breaking of the marriage.
Bestiality
Any sexual contact between a person and any nonhuman vertebrate, either dead or alive by penetration of the penis into the vagina or anus, contact between the mouth and genitalia, or by contact between the genitalia of one and the genitalia or anus of the other.
*Personal Note: Tom, Tom the piper's son, stole a pig and away he run!
Note: Since the legal definition of "bestiality" only includes vertebrates, it does not disallow a man from having a deep, meaningful, life-long sexual relationship with an octopus. It is therefore also legal to seriously date a lobster. Question: Where are you going to take her out for dinner? Surf and turf? If you order the lobster, and then eat her out later in the evening, when does diet choice become date cannibalism?
Statutory Rape
Iowa statutory rape law is violated when a person has consensual sexual intercourse with an individual under age 16. A close in age exemption allows teens aged 14 and 15 to consent to partners less than 4 years older.
Child Endangerment
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Knowingly acts in a manner that creates a substantial risk to a child or minor’s physical, mental or emotional health or safety.
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By an intentional act or series of intentional acts, uses unreasonable force, torture or cruelty that results in bodily injury, or that is intended to cause serious injury.
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By an intentional act or series of intentional acts, evidences unreasonable force, torture or cruelty which causes substantial mental or emotional harm to a child or minor.
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Willfully deprives a child or minor of necessary food, clothing, shelter, health care or supervision appropriate to the child or minor’s age, when the person is reasonably able to make the necessary provisions and which deprivation substantially harms the child or minor’s physical, mental or emotional health. For purposes of this paragraph, the failure to provide specific medical treatment shall not for that reason alone be considered willful deprivation of health care if the person can show that such treatment would conflict with the tenets and practice of a recognized religious denomination of which the person is an adherent or member. This exception does not in any manner restrict the right of an interested party to petition the court on behalf of the best interest of the child or minor.
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Knowingly permits the continuing physical or sexual abuse of a child or minor. However, it is an affirmative defense to this subsection if the person had a reasonable apprehension that any action to stop the continuing abuse would result in substantial bodily harm to the person or the child or minor.
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Abandons the child or minor to fend for the child or minor’s self, knowing that the child or minor is unable to do so.
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Knowingly permits a child or minor to be present at a location where amphetamine, or methamphetamine manufactured
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Knowingly allows a person custody or control of, or unsupervised access to a child or a minor after knowing the person is required to register or is on the sex offender registry as a sex offender under chapter 692A. However, this paragraph does not apply to a person who is a parent or guardian of a child or a minor, who is required to register as a sex offender, or to a person who is married to and living with a person required to register as a sex offender.
Necrophilia
A person commits sexual abuse of a human corpse if the person knowingly and intentionally engages in a sex act, as defined in section 702.17, with a human corpse.
Incest
A person, except a child as defined in section 702.5, who performs a sex act with another whom the person knows to be related to the person, either legitimately or illegitimately, as an ancestor, descendant, brother or sister of the whole or half blood, aunt, uncle, niece, or nephew, commits incest. Incest is a class D felony.
Fraud
1. Makes, tenders or keeps for sale any warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or any other instrument purporting to represent any right to goods, with knowledge that the goods represented by such instrument do not exist.
2. Knowingly attaches or alters any label to any goods offered or kept for sale so as to materially misrepresent the quality or quantity of such goods or the maker or source of such goods.
3. Knowingly executes or tenders a false certification under penalty of perjury, false affidavit, or false certificate, if the certification, affidavit, or certificate is required by law or given in support of a claim for compensation, indemnification, restitution, or other payment.
Synonyms: sharp practice, cheating, swindling, trickery, artifice,
deceit, deception, double-dealing, duplicity, treachery,
chicanery, skulduggery, imposture, embezzlement;
Larceny
Takes possession or control of the property of another, or property in the possession of another, with the intent to deprive the other thereof.
Synonyms: theft, stealing, robbery, pilfering, thieving,
purloining; burglary, housebreaking, breaking and entering; appropriation, expropriation,
misappropriation
Attempted Murder
A person commits the offense of attempt to commit murder when, with the intent to cause the death of another person and not under circumstances which would justify the person’s actions, the person does any act by which the person expects to set in motion a force or chain of events which will cause or result in the death of the other person.
Note: This includes torturing a child in such a way that it risks ending the child's life.