A penalty of incarceration for a period not exceeding (3) three years shall be imposed on anyone who, personally or through an intermediary, endangers a juvenile who has not completed (15) fifteen years of age or a person incapable of protecting himself due to his health, mental or psychological condition. The penalty shall be incarceration if the crime is committed by way of abandoning the juvenile or disabled in a deserted place, or if it is committed by an ascendant of the victim or by any person whose duty is to protect and take care of the victim. If permanent disability or death of the victim has resulted from the act, without any intention on the part of the perpetrator to cause disability or death, the latter shall be punished with the penalty prescribed for the crime of assault leading to a permanent disability or with the penalty for the assault leading to death, as the case may be. The same penalty shall also be imposed if such endangerment occurs by way of deliberately depriving the juvenile or the disabled of the food or care which his condition necessitates, whenever the perpetrator is bound by the Islamic Sharia to provide it.
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