State v. Mateyko

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a conviction of child abuse through neglect requires proof that the neglect causes “an actual, deleterious effect or harm to the child’s health and welfare and that the mere risk of harm is insufficient to support a conviction”
• holding that attempted child neglect is an offense
• remanding “for a new trial on the lesser-included offense of attempted child abuse through neglect”
• holding the victims suffered no harm when a baby was found in a pile of trash and clothes, children were sleeping under a “roach-infested blanket,” and an officer had to go outside to “breathe fresh air and to shake the roaches off his pants”
• interpreting the neglect prong of the pre-2005 version of the statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).