A. Every person who, having been convicted of any offense against an elderly or incapacitated person, as enumerated in Section 445 of this act, commits any crime against an elderly or incapacitated person after such conviction is punishable as follows:
1. If the offense of which such person is subsequently convicted is such that upon a first conviction an offender would be punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for any term exceeding five (5) years, such person is punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term not less than ten (10) years; or
2. If such subsequent offense is such that upon a first conviction the offender would be punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for five (5) years or less, then the person convicted of such subsequent offense is punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term not exceeding fifteen (15) years.
B. Every person who, having been twice convicted of felony offenses against an elderly or incapacitated person, commits a third felony offense against an elderly or incapacitated person within ten (10) years of the date following the completion of the execution of the first sentence, shall be punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of not less than twenty (20) years.
C. All felony offenses arising out of the same transaction or occurrence or series of events closely related in time and location shall be considered as one offense for the purposes of this section.
D. Nothing in this section shall affect the punishment by death or life imprisonment without parole in all crimes now or hereafter made punishable by death or life imprisonment without parole.
Added by Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 449, eff. July 1, 1999.