Indirect object of participle?

[Luckysquirty]

Offering the candy to the child, the lady smiled.

Could "child" be the indirect object of the participle "offering"?

 

[jutfrank]

In "Offering the child the candy", 'the child' is the indirect object of 'offering'.

And the child is also the indirect object of Offering in the original example, I assume. Is that right, Paul Matthews?

The direct object of Offering is the candy.


Edit: I'd like to retract the part highlighted in blue, as it seems that I was mistaken. I'm leaving this post up, though, for the sake of the coherence of the thread.

 

[jutfrank]

In the original example, Offering the candy to the child, there is no indirect object.

Are you sure? Okay.

Some references would say that there is. I wasn't sure.