Skip to main content
CourtGPT logoCourtGPT
Directory
Law
For Attorneys
Blog
AppointmentsSign InSign Up
§ 1051 — 1051 — U.S. Virgin Islands Law | CourtGPT
  1. Home/
  2. Laws/
  3. U.S. Virgin Islands/
  4. Title 14/
  5. Chapter 53/
  6. 1051
U.S. Virgin Islands Legal Code

1051

U.S. Virgin Islands § 1051 — U.S. Virgin Islands law

Ask AI about this
Whoever without lawful authority confines or imprisons another person within this Territory against his will, or confines or inveigles or kidnaps another person, with intent to cause him to be confined or imprisoned in this Territory against his will, or to cause him to be sent out of this Territory against his will; and whoever willfully and knowingly sells, or in any manner transfers, for any term, the services or labor of any other person who has been unlawfully seized, taken, inveigled or kidnapped from this Territory to any other state, territory or country, is guilty of kidnapping and shall be imprisoned for not less than one and not more than 20 years. This action shall not apply in any case when a parent abducts his own child.