Article 118. A Failure to Render Help to an Ill Person

1. A failure to render help to an ill person, without valid reasons, by a person obligated to render it in accordance with law or by a special rule, if that entailed the causation of damage of medium gravity due to negligence to the health of a given ill person, - shall be punished by a fine in an amount from fifty up to one hundred monthly assessment indices, or in an amount of wages or other income of a given convict for a period up to three months, or by correctional labour for a period up to one year, or by restriction of freedom for a period up to three years, with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions, or to engage in certain activity for a period up to two years, or without such deprivation.

2. The same act, if it entailed the death of an ill person due to negligence, or the causation of severe damage to his health, - shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a period of five years, with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to engage in certain activity for a period up to three years.

Article 119. Abandoning an Endangered Person

1. The abandonment of a person without help, the guilty party being aware of this fact, in a state which is dangerous for life or health, if that person has no possibility to take measures of self-preservation due to minor age, old age, disease, or due to another helpless state, in cases in which a guilty party had an opportunity to have rendered assistance to that person, and was obliged to take care of that person, or in cases in which the guilty person himself put that person into a state which was dangerous for health or life, - shall be punished by a fine in an amount from fifty up to one hundred monthly assessment indices, or in an amount of wages or other income of a given convict for a period up to two months, or by engagement in public works for a period from one hundred twenty up to one hundred eighty hours, or by correctional labour for a period up to one year, or detention under arrest for a period up to three months.

2. The same act which, due to negligence, entailed the death of a person abandoned without help, or other grave consequences, - shall be punished by a fine in an amount from five hundred up to one thousand monthly assessment indices, or in an amount of wages or other income of a given convict for a period from five to ten months, or by detention under arrest for a period up to six months, or by deprivation of freedom for a period up to three years.

Article 120. Rape

1. Rape, that is sexual intercourse accompanied by violence, or a threat of violence to a victim, or to other persons, or with the use of the helpless state of a victim, - shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a period from three to five years.

2. Rape:

a) committed by a group of persons, or group of persons upon a preliminary collusion, or by an organised group;

b) combined with a threat to kill, as well as committed with especial brutality with regard to a victim or to other persons;

c) which entailed infection of a victim with a venereal disease;

d) committed repeatedly or by a person who earlier committed violent acts of a sexual character;

e) of a juvenile, a given convict being aware of that fact, -

shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a period from five] to ten years.

3. Rape:

a) which by negligence entailed the death of a victim;

b) which by negligence entailed the causation of severe damage to the victim's health, her infection with HIV/ AIDS, or other serious consequences;

c) of a victim who has not reached fourteen years of age, a given convict being aware of that fact;

d) with the use of conditions of social disaster, or in the course of mass unrest, -

shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a period from eight to fifteen years.

Date: 2014-12-21; view: 944