Any person who, by means of force, violence, intimidation, fraud or deceit abducts a minor for the purposes of detaining and hiding said minor from the parents, the tutor or from any other person in charge of said minor shall incur a severe second degree felony.\nA penalty in the upper half of the corresponding range shall be imposed when the conduct prohibited in the previous paragraph is carried out in:\n(a) A public or private hospital institution;\n(b) a public or private elementary, middle or high school;\n(c) an occupied building or its premises;\n(d) a child care center, or\n(e) a park, recreational area or shopping mall.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 134; Sept. 16, 2004, No. 338, § 3, eff. May 1, 2005.
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