What constitutes a Child Imitation and Abandonment (CIMT) or a Crime of Child Abuse?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Quintero, A155836 (Cal. App. 2019):

neglect, or child abandonment."4 The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) and other immigration statutes do not define what constitutes a CIMT or a "crime of child abuse." (Hernandez-Gonzalez v. Holder (9th Cir. 2015) 778 F.3d 793, 801 ["[I]mmigration statutes do not specifically define offenses constituting crimes involving moral turpitude[.]"]; Fregozo, supra, 576 F.3d at p. 1035 [noting the BIA had only "recently supplied a definition of " 'crime of child abuse' "].)

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