Section 565.240 – Unlawful posting of certain information over the internet, offense of — violation, penalty.
Effective – 28 Aug 2021, 2 histories 565.240. Unlawful posting of certain information over the internet, offense of — violation, penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of unlawful posting of certain information over the internet if he or she knowingly posts the name, home address, Social Security number, telephone number, or any other […]
Section 565.252 – Invasion of privacy, penalty.
Effective – 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories 565.252. Invasion of privacy, penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of invasion of privacy if he or she knowingly: (1) Photographs, films, videotapes, produces, or otherwise creates an image of another person, without the person’s consent, while the person is in a state of full or […]
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 […]
Section 565.156 – Child abduction — penalty.
Effective – 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories 565.156. Child abduction — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of child abduction if he or she: (1) Intentionally takes, detains, entices, conceals or removes a child from a parent after being served with process in an action affecting marriage or paternity but prior to the […]
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 […]