Oklahoma § 22-126 Kidnapping, enticing away children and similar offenses,

Oklahoma Statutes

§ 22-126 — Kidnapping, enticing away children and similar offenses,

Oklahoma § 22-126

Title 22Criminal Procedure

This text of Oklahoma § 22-126 (Kidnapping, enticing away children and similar offenses,) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Oklahoma primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

Okla. Stat. tit. 22, § 22-126 (2026).

Text

jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of an indictment or information: 1. For forcibly and without lawful authority seizing and confining another, or inveigling or kidnapping the person, with intent, against his or her will, to cause the person to be secretly confined or imprisoned in this state, or to be sent out of the state, or from one county to another; 2. For decoying or taking or enticing away a child under the age of twelve (12) years, with intent to detain and conceal the child from his or her parents, guardian, or other person having lawful charge of the child; 3. For the inveigling, enticing, or taking away an unmarried female of previous chaste character, under the age of twenty-one (21) years, for the purpose of prostitution; or 4. For taking away any child under the age of eighteen 

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of an indictment or information: 1. For forcibly and without lawful authority seizing and confining another, or inveigling or kidnapping the person, with intent, against his or her will, to cause the person to be secretly confined or imprisoned in this state, or to be sent out of the state, or from one county to another; 2. For decoying or taking or enticing away a child under the age of twelve (12) years, with intent to detain and conceal the child from his or her parents, guardian, or other person having lawful charge of the child; 3. For the inveigling, enticing, or taking away an unmarried female of previous chaste character, under the age of twenty-one (21) years, for the purpose of prostitution; or 4. For taking away any child under the age of eighteen (18) years from his or her father, mother, guardian or other person having the legal charge of his or her person for the purpose of child sex trafficking, is in any county in which the offense is committed or into or out of which the person upon whom the offense was committed, may, in the commission of the offense, have been brought or in which an act was done by the defendant in instigating, procuring, promoting, aiding or in being an accessory to the commission of the offense, or in abetting the parties concerned therein.