169. Abandoning child under 5 years at hospital, etc.
Any person who, being bound by law or by virtue of any agreement or employment, to keep charge of or to maintain any child under 5 years of age, or, being unlawfully in possession of any such child, abandons such child by leaving him or her at the hospital or a workplace or at the house of the person or in any other manner, is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 5 years.