punished by a term of imprisonment of one month to two years and a fine of 15,000
to 1 00,000 francs , or only one of these two penalties.
If there was premeditation or ambush, the imprisonment will be from two to five
years and a fine of 25,000 to 200,000 francs.
ART.296.- The one that will be done voluntarily of injuries or blows to its father,
mother 1egitimes, natural or adoptive or other ascendants, will be punished with
the maximum sentence provided in the preceding articles.
ART.297. - Anyone who deliberately injures or blows to a child below the age of
fifteen years he accomplished, or who will voluntarily deprived of food or care, to
the point of jeopardizing or who will be committed to its against any other violence
or assault, to the exclusion of small arms violence, will be punished by a prison term
of one to five years and a fine of 15,000 to 200,000 francs.
Sil in results from the different kinds of violence or deprivation above, a disease or a
total inability to work for more than twenty days or if there is premeditation or
entrapment, the penalty shall be three to seven years' imprisonment and 20 000 to
200 000 francs fine.
If the culprits are the fathers, mothers and other ascendants, or any other persons
having authority over or custody of the child, the penalty of imprisonment of five to
ten years.
In the cases provided for in this article, the guilty, may, in addition, be deprived of
the rights mentioned in article 33 for at least five years and not more than ten years,
from the day or he will have undergone his punishment.
ART.298.- If the violence or deprivation referred to in the preceding article have
been followed in mutilation, amputation, or deprivation of the use of a limb,
blindness, loss of an eye or other permanent disability, or if they have caused the
death without intention to give, the penalty will be forced labor in time of ten to
twenty years.
If the culprits are the fathers and mothers or other ascendants or any other persons
having authority over or custody of the child, the penalty will be that of the work
forces in perpetuity.
If the violence or deprivation usually practiced it causes death, even without the
intention of giving, the penalty will be the work forces in perpetuity will always
pronounced.
If the violence or deprivation have been practiced with the intention of causing
death, the perpetrators will be punished as guilty of murder.
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