Cap. 9 Art. 257CCausing or permitting an elder or a dependent adult to suffer under circumstances not likely to produce bodily harm or death.

(1) A person who knows or ought to know that a person is an elder or a dependent adult and who, under circumstances or conditions other than those likely to produce grievous bodily harm or death, wilfully causes or permits any elder or dependent adult to suffer, or inflicts thereon unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering, or having the care or custody of any elder or dependent adult, wilfully causes or permits the person or health of the elder or dependent adult to be injured or wilfully causes or permits the elder or dependent adult to be placed in a situation in which his or her person or health may be endangered, shall be guilty of an offence and, without prejudice to any other punishment to which he may be liable under any other provision of this Code or of any other law, shall be liable to the punishment of imprisonment for a term from one to three years.

(2) Where as a result of the conduct described in sub-article (1), the victim suffers bodily harm, the punishment shall be increased as follows:

(a) where the victim is under seventy years of age by one degree;

(b) where the victim is over seventy years of age by two degrees.