![]() [ F14 (2A) The reference in subsection (2)(b) to the infant being âin bedâ with another (âthe adultâ) includes a reference to the infant lying next to the adult in or on any kind of furniture or surface being used by the adult for the purpose of sleeping (and the reference to the time when the adult âwent to bedâ is to be read accordingly). (b) where it is proved that the death of an infant under three years of age was caused by suffocation (not being suffocation caused by disease or the presence of any foreign body in the throat or air passages of the infant) while the infant was in bed with some other person who has attained the age of sixteen years, that other person shall, if he was, when he went to bed, under the influence of drink, be deemed to have neglected the infant in a manner likely to cause injury to its health. (a) a parent or other person legally liable to maintain a child or young person shall be deemed to have neglected him in a manner likely to cause injury to his health if he has failed to provide adequate food, clothing, medical aid or lodging for him, or if, having been unable otherwise to provide such food, clothing, medical aid or lodging, he has failed to take steps to procure it to be provided under F7, or in addition thereto, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months. (b) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding pounds, or alternatively. F7, or in addition thereto, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding years ![]() (a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine. (1) If any person who has attained the age of sixteen years and any child or young person under that age, wilfully assaults, ill-treats, neglects, abandons, or exposes him, or causes or procures him to be assaulted, ill-treated, neglected, abandoned, or exposed, in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health, that person shall be guilty of, and shall be liableâ Part I E+W Prevention of Cruelty and Exposure to Moral and Physical Danger Offences E+W 1 Cruelty to persons under sixteen.
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