Article 659 — Failure to Bring up.

(1) A parent or other person exercising the authority of guardian or tutor, who, for gain or in dereliction of his duty; a) grossly neglects the children under his charge and abandons them without due care and attention or to moral or physical danger; or b) entrusts a child for a long time to a person, an organization or an institution with whom or where he knows, or could have foreseen, that it will be reduced to physical or moral destitution, or will be physically or psychologically endangered, is punishable with simple imprisonment or fine. In grave cases, the Court may in addition deprive the criminal of his family rights. (2) Where the child has suffered injury, whether foreseen or calculated, whether by abuse of the right to administer chastisement or through ill-treatment, the relevant provision in this Code shall apply concurrently (Art. 63).