Definitions overview
Maltreatment
Maltreatment means abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation as defined below:
- Abuse is physical, emotional, or sexual (MS 656.5572, subd. 2)
- Neglect is the failure to provide for food, clothing, shelter, medical care and/or supervision (MS 626.5572, subd. 17)
- Financial Exploitation is the misuse of a funds, assets or property or the failure to use the vulnerable adult's financial resources to care for the vulnerable adult, which results in or is likely to result in detriment to the vulnerable adult (MS 626.5572, subd. 9)
Abuse
Abuse means an act against a vulnerable adult that constitutes a violation of, an attempt to violate, or aiding and abetting a violation of these statutes:
- Assault in the first through fifth degrees (MS 609.221 to 609.224)
- The use of drugs to injure or facilitate crime (MS 609.235)
- The solicitation, inducement, and promotion of prostitution (MS 609.322)
- Criminal sexual conduct in the first through fifth degrees (MS 609.342 to 609.3451)
