(a) Any person having the charge of any child under the age of six years who exposes such child in any place, with intent wholly to abandon such child, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(b) The act of a parent or agent leaving an infant thirty days or younger with a designated employee pursuant to section 17a-58 shall not constitute a violation of this section.
(1949 Rev., S. 8366; P.A. 00-207, S. 7; P.A. 13-258, S. 112.)
History: P.A. 00-207 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a), making technical changes therein, and added new Subsec. (b) re exemption for parent or agent leaving an infant with a designated employee pursuant to Sec. 17a-58; P.A. 13-258 amended Subsec. (a) to change penalty from fine of not more than $500 and imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony.
See Secs. 53-304 to 53-308, inclusive, re nonsupport cases.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 939 - Offenses Against the Person
Section 53-10a. - Persons sentenced to life imprisonment prior to October 1, 1963.
Section 53-20. - Cruelty to persons.
Section 53-21. - Injury or risk of injury to, or impairing morals of, children. Sale of children.
Section 53-22. - Psychiatric examinations.
Section 53-23. - Abandonment of child under the age of six years.
Section 53-34a. - Deprivation of rights of physically disabled and blind; class C misdemeanor.
Section 53-34b. - Deprivation of the right to breast-feed one's child.
Section 53-36c. - Counsel for commission.
Section 53-37. - Ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race.
Section 53-37b. - Deprivation of a person's equal rights and privileges by force or threat.
Section 53-38. - Fictitious notice of birth, marriage or death.
Section 53-39. - Malicious prosecution.
Section 53-41. - Tattooing of persons restricted.
Section 53-41a. - Surveillance devices in dressing rooms prohibited.