Section 617.22 Concealing Birth - Minnesota Statutes

617.22 CONCEALING BIRTH.

Every person who shall endeavor to conceal the birth of a child by any disposition of its dead body, whether the child died before or after its birth, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, having been convicted of endeavoring to conceal the stillbirth of any issue, or the death of any issue under the age of two years, shall, subsequent to that conviction, endeavor to conceal any subsequent birth or death, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years.

History:

(10179) RL s 4946; 1917 c 231 s 1; 1979 c 102 s 13; 1983 c 7 s 16