It shall be unlawful for any person to commit, cause or knowingly permit any of the following offenses against children:
(A) Abandon any child.
(B) Unnecessarily fail to provide any child in his charge or custody with proper food, drink, shelter and raiment.
(C) Cruelly beat, torture, overwork or mutilate any child.
(D) Wilfully expose to inclement weather or in any manner injure a child in health or limb. (1956 Code § 40-1)