...who has the custody, charge, or care of any child under the age of sixteen years, wilfully assaults, ill-treats, neglects, abandons, or exposes such child, or causes or procures such child to be assaulted, illtreated, neglected, abandoned, or exposed in a manner likely to cause such child unnecessary...

...orn"~t|™'j1ngtetc charge of a boy under the age of fourteen years, or a girl under™ the age of sixteen years, ill-treats, neglects, abandons or exposes such child,...serious injury to its health, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and upon conviction shall incur a penalty not exceeding $100, and in default...

...to contribute to a child becoming a neulected child Penalty or procures such child to be truant or to be ill-treated, neglected, abandoned, or exposed,...unnecessary suffering or serious injury to its health, including injury to or loss of sight or hearing or limb or organ of the body, or any mental derangement,...

...having the care, custody, control negiectmg, or cnarge of a boy Or girl under the age of 16 years, illtreats, neglects, abandons or exposes such child,...neglected, abandoned or exposed in a manner likely to cause the child unnecessary suffering, or serious injury to its health, shall be guilty of an offence and...

...abandons or exposes such young person or causes or procures or permits such young person to be assaulted, ill-treated, neglected, abandoned or exposed in a manner likely to cause such young person unnecessary suffering or injury to his health, that person shall be deemed guilty of an...

...wilfully assaults, illtreats, neglects, abandons, or exposes such child or young person to be assaulted, ill-treated, neglected, abandoned or exposed, in a manner likely to cause such child or young person unnecessary suffering or injury to his health [, that shall constitute child abuse)....

...over the age of sixteen years, who has the custody, charge or care of any child, wilfully assaults, ill-treats, neglects, abandons or exposes such child or causes or procures such child to be assaulted, ill-treated, neglected, abandoned, or exposed, in a manner likely to cause such child unnecessary...

...has the custody, charge, or care of any child under the age of fourteen years, willfully assaults, ill-treats, neglects, abandons or exposes such child, or causes or procures such child to be assaulted, ill-treated, neglected, abandoned, or exposed in a manner likely to cause such child unnecessary...

...the Canadian government passed the Children's Protection Act, calling for punishment for anyone who "ill-treats, neglects, abandons or exposes such child,...be ill-treated, neglected, abandoned or exposed." The act was finally given some teeth in January 1909 when Magistrate Thomas Mayne Daly, a portly, fifty-six-year-old...

...ill-treatment aid ill- treats, neglects, abandons, or exposes such child, or causes or procures "*0 such child to be ill-treated, neglected, abandoned,...likely to cause such child unnecessary suffering or injury to its health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be liable,...