The father or mother of a minor or any person who is in charge of said minor for support or education, who abandons said minor in any place with the intent to leave said minor unprotected shall incur a fourth degree felony.\nWhen, due to the circumstances of the abandonment, the life, health, bodily integrity or sexual indemnity of the child jeopardized, the person shall incur a third degree felony.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 132, eff. May 1, 2005.
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