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# 18 U.S.C. § 3300 - Recruitment or use of child soldiers

## Text

No person may be prosecuted, tried, or punished for a violation of section 2442 unless the indictment or the information is filed not later than 10 years after the commission of the offense.

(Added Pub. L. 110–340, § 2(a)(2), Oct. 3, 2008, 122 Stat. 3736.)