Child Care Act, 1983 (Act No. 74 of 1983)Chapter 8 : Prevention of ill-treatment and unlawful removal of children50. Ill-treatment or abandonment of children |
| a) | ill-treats that child or allows it to be ill-treated; or |
| b) | abandons that child, or any other person who ill-treats a child, shall be guilty of an offence. |
| 2) | Any person legally liable to maintain a child who, while able to do so, fails to provide that child with adequate food, clothing, lodging and medical aid, shall be guilty of an offence. |
| 3) | Any person convicted of any offence under this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding R20 000 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. |