Statutes > Arkansas Statutes > Title 5 - Criminal Offenses > Subtitle 3 - Offenses Involving Families, Dependents, Etc > Chapter 26 - Offenses Involving The Family > Subchapter 2 - Offenses Generally > § 5-26-203 - Concealing birth.

§ 5-26-203 - Concealing birth.

5-26-203. Concealing birth.

(a) A person commits the offense of concealing birth if he or she hides the corpse of a newborn child with purpose to conceal the fact of the child's birth or to prevent a determination of whether the child was born alive.

(b) Concealing birth is a Class D felony.