Section 260.32. Endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person in the second degree  


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  • A person is guilty of endangering the welfare of a vulnerable  elderly
      person  in  the  second  degree when, being a caregiver for a vulnerable
      elderly person:
        1. With intent to cause physical injury to  such  person,  he  or  she
      causes such injury to such person; or
        2. He or she recklessly causes physical injury to such person; or
        3.  With criminal negligence, he or she causes physical injury to such
      person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument; or
        4. He or she subjects  such  person  to  sexual  contact  without  the
      latter's  consent.  Lack  of consent under this subdivision results from
      forcible compulsion or incapacity to consent, as those terms are defined
      in  article  one  hundred  thirty  of  this  chapter,   or   any   other
      circumstances  in which the vulnerable elderly person does not expressly
      or impliedly acquiesce in the caregiver's conduct.  In  any  prosecution
      under  this  subdivision  in  which the victim's alleged lack of consent
      results solely from incapacity to consent because of the victim's mental
      disability or mental incapacity, the provisions  of  section  130.16  of
      this  chapter  shall  apply.  In addition, in any prosecution under this
      subdivision in which the victim's lack of consent is based  solely  upon
      his  or  her  incapacity  to  consent  because  he  or  she was mentally
      disabled, mentally  incapacitated  or  physically  helpless,  it  is  an
      affirmative defense that the defendant, at the time he or she engaged in
      the  conduct  constituting  the  offense,  did  not know of the facts or
      conditions responsible for such incapacity to consent.
        Endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person in  the  second
      degree is a class E felony.