Title: Ohio Child Abuse and Neglect Definitions | Ohio Children's Trust Fund
Headings: Ohio Child Abuse and Neglect Definitions
Ohio Child Abuse and Neglect Definitions
General Definitions
Types of Abuse
Forms of Neglect
Definitions Under Ohio Law

Content: (a) Who is abandoned by the child's parents, guardian, or custodian. (b) Who lacks adequate parental care because of the faults or habits of the child's parents, guardian, or custodian. (c) Whose parents, guardian, or custodian neglects the child or refuses to provide proper or necessary subsistence, education, medical or surgical care or treatment, or other care necessary for the child's health, morals, or well-being. (d) Whose parents, guardian, or custodian neglects the child or refuses to provide the special care made necessary by the child's mental condition. (e) Whose parents, legal guardian, or custodian have placed or attempted to place the child in violation of sections 5103.16 and 5103.17 of the Ohio Revised Code. (f) Who, because of the omission of the child's parents, guardian, or custodian, suffers physical or mental injury harming or threatening to harm the child's health or welfare. (g) Who is subject to out-of-home care child neglect. (h) Nothing in Chapter 2151.03. of the Ohio Revised Code shall be construed as subjecting a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child to criminal liability when solely in the practice of religious beliefs, the parent, guardian, or custodian fails to provide adequate medical or surgical care or treatment for the child. Abandoned Child — pursuant to section 2151.011 of the Ohio Revised Code, means a child who is presumed abandoned when the parents of the child have failed to visit or maintain contact with the child for more than ninety days, regardless of whether the parents resume contact with the child after that period of ninety days.