Oregon Revised Statutes 163.545 makes it a crime to allow a child under 10 to be unattended for such time as will endanger them.
Oregon Revised Statutes, Volume 10 §34 Chapters 419A-C, which is Oregon’s juvenile court act, does not have a neglect definition, but its administrative code does include failure to provide adequate supervision. CPS Rule 12.
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