§ 11-8-9 - Aiding and abetting a minor. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-8-9

   § 11-8-9  Aiding and abetting a minor.– (a) Every person eighteen (18) years of age or older who shall aid, assist,abet, counsel, hire, command, or procure a person under the age of eighteen(18) years to commit any offense as set forth in this chapter shall beimprisoned for not less than four (4) years and not more than twenty (20) yearsand/or fined not less than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) nor more thantwenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or both, for each such offense.

   (b) Every person convicted pursuant to subsection (a) of thissection shall be ordered by the sentencing judge to perform up to one hundred(100) hours of public community restitution work. The court may not waive theobligation to perform public community restitution work. Public communityrestitution work shall be in addition to any fine or sentence which may beimposed and not in lieu of the fine or sentence.