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ART.277

ACTS PUNISHED:
1. By delivering a minor to a public institution or other persons w/o
   consent of the one who entrusted such minor to the care of the
   offender or, in the absence of that one, without the consent of
   the proper authorities;

     ELEMENTS:
     a. Offender has charge of the rearing or education of a minor;
     b. He delivers said minor to a public institution or other
        persons.; and
     c. That the one who entrusted such child to the offender has not
        consented to such act; or if the one who entrusted such child
        to the offender is absent, the proper authorities have not
        consented to it.

2. By neglecting his children by not giving them
education which their station in life requires and
financial condition permits;

     ELEMENTS:
     a. That the offender is a parent;
     b. That he neglects his children by not giving them education; and
     c. That his station in life requires such education and his
        financial condition permits it.


Obligation to educate children terminates if mother and children refuse
without good reason to live with accused.

Failure to give education must be due to deliberate desire to evade
such obligation.


Abandonment Of Minor By Person Entrusted With His Custody