Juvenile Offenders.
(j) is found in any circumstances which are, in the opinion of the court, likely to lead to any injury to the health or morals of such person.
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And the court before which a person is brought as coming within one of these descriptions, if satisfied on inquiry of that fact, may order the child or young person to be taken out of the custody, charge, or care of any person, and to be committed to the care of a relative of the child or young person or some other fit person or institution (including a certified industrial school as defined by the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance) named by the court (such relative or other person or institution being willing to undertake such care), until the child or young person attains the age of eighteen years, or for any shorter period, and may in addition to such order make an order that the child or young person be placed under the supervision of a probation officer, and the court may of its own motion, or on the application of any person, from time to time, by order renew, vary or revoke any such order: Provided that a child or young person shall not be treated as coming within the description contained in paragraph (f) if the only common or reputed prostitute whose company the child frequents is the mother of the child or young person, and she exercises proper guardianship and due care to protect the child or young person from contamination.
(2) Every order made under this section shall be in writing, and any such order may be made by the court in the absence of the child or young person; and the consent of any person or institution to undertake the care of the child or young person in pursuance of any such order shall be proved in such manner as the court may think sufficient to bind that person or institution.
(3) (a) Any person or institution to whose care a child or young person is committed under this section shall, whilst the order is in force, have the like control over the child or young person as the parent and shall be responsible for his maintenance, and the child or young person shall continue in the care of such person or institution, notwithstanding that he is claimed by his parent or any other person, and if any person—
(i) knowingly assists or induces, directly or indirectly, a child or young person to escape from
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