San Antonio Kidnapping Attorney
Charged with Kidnapping in San Antonio?
If you are facing kidnapping charges, this is no time to rely on an inexperienced attorney with your freedom and future at stake. You need an attorney who knows the law and how to use it in court in your defense. You want an attorney who will listen to you and treat you with dignity and respect. You want an attorney who will relentlessly defend your rights every step of the way to achieve the best possible resolution of your case.
At The Law Firm of John J. Fox, we defend clients charged with kidnapping. We have aggressively defended people in the San Antonio community since 1999. We urge you to contact San Antonio domestic violence attorney John F. Fox for the defense services you need.
Kidnapping Charges
Kidnapping is the intentional abducting of another person by transporting them or secreting them to prevent their liberation. To be guilty of kidnapping an adult, there must be a use of force or intimidation. In the case of a child under the age of 14, no force is necessary. Even if the child acquiesces, it is still kidnapping unless a parent or guardian has given consent. As for acquiescing children from 14 to 17, it is kidnapping to take the child outside the state or a 120 mile radius of the child's home without a parent's consent.
Relatives Charged with Kidnapping
It is a defense to a kidnapping charge that you are a relative of the child, had no intent to use or threaten deadly force and your purpose was to take legal control of the child.
Penalties for Kidnapping
Kidnapping is a felony punishable from 2 to 10 years in the state prison and up to a $10,000 fine. Where there is an intention to hold the person for ransom, use the person as a shield, or injure the person or abuse the person sexually, the charge is aggravated kidnapping with a potential sentence of 5 years to life. If the person is released voluntarily in a safe place, the penalties are reduced.
Contact San Antonio kidnapping attorney John F. Foxfor vigorous defense of charges.
