Penal Code · English · 2015
Article 327
Child Neglect
A person exercising parental authority who for gain or in dereliction of duty:
#grossly neglects the children under his charge and abandons them without due care and attention, or to moral or physical dangers; or
#entrusts a child for a long time to a person, an organization or an institution with whom or where he knows, or could have foreseen, that the child will be reduced to physical or moral destitution,
#is guilty of child neglect, a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 month and not more than 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 – 20,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas.
#The court may in addition deprive the offender of his family or custodial rights for a period of not less than one nor more than 10 years, upon a determination that the nature and circumstances of the offence justify the deprivation.
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