Prohibición de dañar o profanar restos humanos y sus lugares de descanso

Explicación Simple

No puedes dañar o molestar los restos de las personas que han muerto. Hacerlo es un delito grave y puedes ir a la cárcel.

Es como si alguien entrara a tu casa y rompiera fotos de tu familia; eso es muy irrespetuoso y te haría sentir mal.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan decide vandalizar un cementerio pintando grafitis en las lápidas. Cuando las autoridades lo descubren, Juan enfrenta serias consecuencias legales por su acción.

Penalidades

Multa de hasta cinco mil dólares o prisión de uno a diez años, o ambas.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

SECTION 16-17-600. Destruction or desecration of human remains or repositories; liability of crematory operators; penalties. (A) It is unlawful for a person wilfully and knowingly, and without proper legal authority to: (1) destroy or damage the remains of a deceased human being; (2) remove a portion of the remains of a deceased human being from a burial ground where human skeletal remains are buried, a grave, crypt, vault, mausoleum, Native American burial ground or burial mound, or other repository; or (3) desecrate human remains. A person violating the provisions of subsection (A) is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not less than one year nor more than ten years, or both. A crematory operator is neither civilly nor criminally liable for cremating a body which (1) has been incorrectly identified by the funeral director, coroner, medical examiner, or person authorized by law to bring the deceased to the crematory; or (2) the funeral director has obtained invalid authorization to cremate. This immunity does not apply to a crematory operator who knew or should have known that the body was incorrectly identified. (B) It is unlawful for a person wilfully and knowingly, and without proper legal authority to: (1) obliterate, vandalize, or desecrate a burial ground where human skeletal remains are buried, a grave, graveyard, tomb, mausoleum, Native American burial ground or burial mound, or other repository of human remains; (2) deface, vandalize, injure, or remove a gravestone or other memorial monument or marker commemorating a deceased person or group of persons, whether located within or outside of a recognized cemetery, Native American burial ground or burial mound, memorial park, or battlefield; or