Any of the following acts constitute child abuse triggering a potential charge for endangering the welfare of a child:
- Disposing of the custody of a child contrary to law;
- Employing or permitting a child to be employed in any vocation or employment injurious to the child’s health or dangerous to its life or limb, or contrary to the laws of New Jersey;
- Employing or permitting a child to be employed in any occupation, employment, or vocation dangerous to the morals of the child;
- The habitual use by the parent or by a person having the custody and control of a child of profane, indecent, or obscene language within the hearing of such child;
- The performing of any indecent, immoral, or unlawful act or deed, in the presence of a child, that may tend to debauch or endanger or degrade the morals of the child;
- Permitting or allowing any other person to perform any indecent, immoral, or unlawful act in the presence of the child that may tend to debauch or endanger the morals of such child;
- Using excessive physical restraint on the child under circumstances that do not indicate that the child’s behavior is harmful to himself, others or property; or
- Leaving the child in an institution, willfully isolated from ordinary social contact under circumstances that indicate emotional or social deprivation.
