42 U.S.C. § 5106g: Definitions

the term “Alaska Native” has the meaning given the term “Native” in section 1602 of title 43 ; the term “infant or toddler with a disability” has the meaning given the term in section 1432 of title 20 ; the term “Native Hawaiian” has the meaning given the term in section 7517 of title 20 ; the employment, use, persuasion, inducement, enticement, or coercion of any child to engage in, or assist any other person to engage in, any sexually explicit conduct or simulation of such conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct; or the rape, and in cases of caretaker or inter-familial relationships, statutory rape, molestation, prostitution, or other form of sexual exploitation of children, or incest with children; and the infant is chronically and irreversibly comatose; merely prolong dying; not be effective in ameliorating or correcting all of the infant’s life-threatening conditions; or otherwise be futile in terms of the survival of the infant; or the provision of such treatment would be virtually futile in terms of the survival of the infant and the treatment itself under such circumstances would be inhumane. For purposes of section 3(2) 1 and subsection (a)(4), a child shall be considered a victim of “child abuse and neglect” and of “sexual abuse” if the child is identified, by a State or local agency employee of the State or locality involved, as being a victim of human trafficking. 1 See References in Text note below. Notwithstanding the definition of “child” in section 3(1), 1 a State may elect to define that term for purposes of the application of paragraph (1) to section 3(2) 1 and subsection (a)(4) as a person who has not attained the age of 24.