The Fifth Circuit has determined that a Texas conviction for felony injury to a child is a crime of child abuse. The court recognized that the statute is overbroad because it criminalizes injury to the elderly and injury to the disabled, but also determined that the statute is divisible between between victim classes.

The full text of Monsonyem v. Attorney General can be found here:

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-60952-CV0.pdf

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