Committing the crime, provided in art. 146 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova, involves various hypotheses. It is therefore necessary to determine whether each of these hypotheses presupposes the presence of the material object. In the present study it is established that, if the prejudicial action, in which the crime provided in art. 146 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova, does not involve manipulation of the victim’s body, then this crime lacks the material object. It is also concluded that, since it does not imply a criminal influence on the victim’s body, the crime provided in art. 146 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova, when committed by inaction, has no material object. It is also established that the crime, provided in art. 146 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova, has no material object in case of error on this object. At the same time, precisely because of this error, we are talking about the attempt at the crime provided in art. 146 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova. Generalizing, it can be argued that the material object is present in those cases of attempt at the crime provided in art. 146 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova, when the factual error refers to other constitutive signs of the crime of this crime.