Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 247

247. (1) Saving the provisions of article 245, where, in consequence of the abandonment or exposure of the child, such child dies or sustains a bodily injury, the offender shall be d eemed, in the first case, to be guilty of wilful homicide, and, in the second case, to be guilty of wilful bodily harm, and shall be subject to the provisions relating to homicide and bodily harm respectively; b ut the punishment shall be diminished by one degree. Abandoning or exposing child without danger to life or limb. (2) Where the abandonment or the exposure of a child as provided in this article shall not have taken place under circumstances of manife st danger either to the life or to the p erson of the child so abandoned or exposed, the punishment shall be diminished by two degrees: Provided that where the punishment prescribed in sub- CRIMINAL CODE [CAP. 9. 127 articles (1) and (2), be not hea vier than the punishment prescr ibed in the last preceding article, the offender shall, on convictio n, be liable to the punishment prescribed in the latter article, incr eased by one degree. Ill-treatment or neglect of child under sixteen years Added by: III.2002.49; Amended by: III.2020.4.