A person exercising parental authority who for gain or in dereliction of duty:
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 327
Child Neglect · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
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.