{"data":{"id":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-12-33","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"720 ILCS 5/12-33","heading":"Ritualized abuse of a child.","body":"(a) A person commits ritualized abuse of a child when he or she knowingly commits any of the following acts with, upon, or in the presence of a child as part of a ceremony, rite or any similar observance:\n(1) actually or in simulation, tortures, mutilates, or sacrifices any warm-blooded animal or human being;\n(2) forces ingestion, injection or other application of any narcotic, drug, hallucinogen or anaesthetic for the purpose of dulling sensitivity, cognition, recollection of, or resistance to any criminal activity;\n(3) forces ingestion, or external application, of human or animal urine, feces, flesh, blood, bones, body secretions, nonprescribed drugs or chemical compounds;\n(4) involves the child in a mock, unauthorized or unlawful marriage ceremony with another person or representation of any force or deity, followed by sexual contact with the child;\n(5) places a living child into a coffin or open grave containing a human corpse or remains;\n(6) threatens death or serious harm to a child, his or her parents, family, pets, or friends that instills a well-founded fear in the child that the threat will be carried out; or\n(7) unlawfully dissects, mutilates, or incinerates a human corpse.\n(b) The provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to:\n(1) lawful agricultural, animal husbandry, food preparation, or wild game hunting and fishing practices and specifically the branding or identification of livestock;\n(2) the lawful medical practice of male circumcision or any ceremony related to male circumcision;\n(3) any state or federally approved, licensed, or funded research project; or\n(4) the ingestion of animal flesh or blood in the performance of a religious service or ceremony.\n(b-5) For the purposes of this Section, \"child\" means any person under 18 years of age.\n(c) Ritualized abuse of a child is a Class 1 felony for a first offense. A second or subsequent conviction for ritualized abuse of a child is a Class X felony for which an offender who has attained the age of 18 years at the time of the commission of the offense may be sentenced to a term of natural life imprisonment and an offender under the age of 18 years at the time of the commission of the offense shall be sentenced under Section 5-4.5-105 of the Unified Code of Corrections.\n(d) (Blank).","path":["CHAPTER 720 CRIMINAL OFFENSES","Criminal Code of 2012."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=1876\u0026ChapterID=53\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:41Z","sha256":"1637f31c69176c28dcc4e6a6018b7319efe09f81a3a0068ae6ee1776f6918d7f","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-12-32","next":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-12-34"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}