Idaho Statutes

§ 18-4501 — KIDNAPING DEFINED

Idaho § 18-4501
JurisdictionIdaho
Title 18CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Ch. 45KIDNAPING

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Idaho Code § 18-4501 (2026).

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Every person who wilfully:

1.Seizes, confines, inveigles or kidnaps another, with intent to cause him, without authority of law, to be secretly confined or imprisoned within this state, or to be sent out of this state, or in any way held to service or kept or detained against his will; or,
2.Leads, takes, entices away or detains a child under the age of sixteen (16) years, with intent to keep or conceal it from its custodial parent, guardian or other person having lawful care or control thereof, or with intent to steal any article upon the person of the child; or,
3.Abducts, entices or by force or fraud unlawfully takes or carries away another at or from a place without the state, or procures, advises, aids or abets such an abduction, enticing, taking or carrying away, and afterwards se

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Legislative History

[18-4501, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 936; am. 1985, ch. 121, sec. 1, p. 296.]

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