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The provisions of section 12-21.6 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes make it unlawful for anyone to endanger the health or life of a child. This law makes it unlawful for anyone to purposefully permit or facilitate the endangerment of the health or life of any child under the age of 18. This includes placing such a child in situations that may lead to any kind of endangerment.

Section 12-21.6. (b) of the Illinois Compiled Statutes makes it an act of child endangerment for anyone to leave a child less than 6 years old inside a vehicle unattended for more than 10 minutes. Under subsection (c), the statute defines the meaning of unattended. According the provisions of the statute, an unattended child is one who is not accompanied by anyone who is 14 or above. It is also further elaborates by stating unattended also refers to a child who is out of sight of the person 14 years or above.