720 ILCS 5/12-3.05(a)(4) – Aggravated Battery of a Senior Citizen
This law makes it a serious crime to badly hurt someone who is 60 years old or older on purpose.
This Illinois law says that if a person purposely causes serious injury, permanent harm, or disfigurement to someone aged 60 or older, it is considered aggravated battery. This offense is treated as a Class 2 felony, meaning it can lead to serious punishment.
(a) Offense Based on Injury: A person commits aggravated battery when, while committing a battery (not using a gun), they knowingly do any of the following:
- Seriously hurts someone who is 60 or older, possibly permentantly scarring them or disabling them.
(h) Sentence: Aggravated battery described in subsection (a)(4) is a Class 2 felony. This makes it a very serious crime which can send people to prison for several years.
(i) Definitions:
In this section:
- “Building or other structure used to provide shelter” means any building used to give safety or a place to stay to people escaping domestic violence.
- “Domestic violence” means abuse or threats between family members or people who live together.
- “Domestic violence shelter” means any place that provides shelter or help to victims of domestic violence or their children, including any area within 500 feet of that place.
- “Firearm” means a gun that shoots bullets, not including air rifles.
- “Machine gun” means a gun that can fire many bullets automatically.
- “Merchant” means someone who regularly sells goods.
- “Strangle” means purposely stopping someone from breathing or moving blood normally by pressing on their neck or blocking their mouth or nose.
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