Art. 257C — CRIMINAL CODE

(1) A person who knows or ought to know that a person is

an elder or a dependent adult and who, under circumstances or

conditions other than those likely to produce grievous bodily harm

or death, wilfully causes or permits any elder or dependent adult to

suffer, or inflicts thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental

suffering, or having the care or custody of any elder or dependent

adult, wilfully causes or permits the person or health of the elder or

dependent adult to be injured or wilfully causes or permits the elder

or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which his or her

person or health may be endangered, shall be guilty of an offence

and, without prejudice to any other punishment to which he may be

liable under any other provision of this Code or of any other law,

shall be liable to the punishment of imprisonment for a term from

one to three years.

(2) Where as a result of the conduct described in sub-article

(1), the victim suffers bodily harm, the punishment shall be

increased as follows

(a) where the victim is under seventy years of age by one

degree;

(b) where the victim is over seventy years of age by two

degrees.

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