§ 28-238. Child desertion.  


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  • It shall be unlawful for any person to commit child desertion. Child desertion is the intentional or criminally negligent exposure of a child under the age of ten years, by a person who has the care, custody, or control of the child, to a hazard or danger against which the child cannot reasonably be expected to protect himself, or the desertion or abandonment of such child, knowing or having reason to believe that the child could be exposed to such hazard or danger.

(Code 2004, § 14.93.2.1)

State law reference

Child desertion, R.S. 14:2.1.