Failure to comply with the provisions of article L. 7124-17 is punishable by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros :
1° For the father, mother, guardian or employer, and generally any person having authority over or custody of a child, to deliver, free of charge or for consideration, their child, ward or apprentice under the age of sixteen years to persons exercising the professions referred to in article L. 7124-16 or to place them under the guidance of vagrants, persons without means of support or beggars ;
2° For intermediaries or agents, to entrust or have entrusted to them the child mentioned in 1° ;
3° For any person, inciting a child under the age of sixteen to leave the home of his or her parents or guardians to follow persons in the professions mentioned in article L. 7124-16.
Conviction automatically entails removal of guardianship. Fathers and mothers may be deprived of parental authority.