Section 565.167 – Custody of child — peace officer to take child into protective custody, when.
Effective – 28 Aug 1988 565.167. Custody of child — peace officer to take child into protective custody, when. — 1. A peace officer investigating a report of a violation of section 565.150, or section 565.153 or 565.156, may take the child into temporary protective custody if it reasonably appears to the officer that any […]
Section 565.160 – Defenses to interference with custody, parental kidnapping, and child abduction.
Effective – 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories 565.160. Defenses to interference with custody, parental kidnapping, and child abduction. — It shall be an absolute defense to the offenses of interference with custody, parental kidnapping, and child abduction that: (1) The person had custody of the child pursuant to a valid court order granting legal custody […]
Section 565.163 – Venue.
Effective – 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories 565.163. Venue. — Persons accused of committing the offense of interference with custody, parental kidnapping or child abduction may be prosecuted by the prosecuting attorney or circuit attorney: (1) In the county in which the child was taken or enticed away from legal custody; (2) In any county […]
Section 565.110 – Kidnapping, first degree, penalty.
Effective – 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories 565.110. Kidnapping, first degree, penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of kidnapping in the first degree if he or she unlawfully removes another person without his or her consent from the place where he or she is found or unlawfully confines another person without his or […]
Section 565.115 – Child kidnapping — penalty.
Effective – 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories 565.115. Child kidnapping — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of child kidnapping if he or she is not a relative of the child within the third degree and, knowing he or she has no right to do so, removes a child under the age of […]
Section 565.120 – Kidnapping, second degree, penalty.
Effective – 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories 565.120. Kidnapping, second degree, penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of kidnapping in the second degree if he or she knowingly restrains another unlawfully and without consent so as to interfere substantially with his or her liberty and exposes him or her to a substantial risk […]
Section 565.130 – Kidnapping, third degree, penalty.
Effective – 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories 565.130. Kidnapping, third degree, penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of kidnapping in the third degree if he or she knowingly restrains another unlawfully and without consent so as to interfere substantially with his or her liberty. 2. The offense of kidnapping in the third degree […]
Section 565.140 – Defenses to kidnapping in the third degree.
Effective – 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories 565.140. Defenses to kidnapping in the third degree. — 1. A person does not commit the offense of kidnapping in the third degree under section 565.130 if the person restrained is a child less than seventeen years of age and: (1) A parent, guardian or other person responsible […]
Section 565.150 – Interference with custody — penalty.
Effective – 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories 565.150. Interference with custody — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of interference with custody if, knowing that he or she has no legal right to do so, he or she takes or entices from legal custody any person entrusted by order of a court to […]
Section 565.153 – Parental kidnapping — penalty.
Effective – 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories 565.153. Parental kidnapping — penalty. — 1. In the absence of a court order determining rights of custody or visitation to a child, a person having a right of custody of the child commits the offense of parental kidnapping if he or she removes, takes, detains, conceals, or […]