Abduction/Kidnapping Flashcards
Abduction Section Act Penalty Ingredients
Section: 208(a), (b) or (c)
Act: Crimes Act 1961
Penalty: 14 years
Ingredients
- Unlawfully
* ****** - Takes away OR Detains
* ******* - A person
* ****** - Without his or her consent OR With his or her consent obtained by fraud OR duress
* ******* - With intent to
(a) marry him or her
(b) have sexual connection with him or her
(c) cause him or her to be married to or to have sexual connection with some other person
Ingredients - definitions and caselaw
Unlawfully
- R V Chartrand
Ingredients - definitions and caselaw
Takes away or detains
- R V Crossan
2. R V Wellard OR R V Pryce
Ingredients - definitions and caselaw
A Person
- Person
Ingredients - definitions and caselaw
Without his or her consent OR With his or her consent obtained by fraud OR duress
- Consent
- R V Cox
- To obtain consent by fraud***
- To obtain consent by duress***
- Section 209A***
Ingredients - definitions and caselaw
With intent to
(a) marry him or her
(b) have sexual connection with him or her
(c) cause him or her to be married to or to have sexual connection with some other person
- Intent
- R V Mohan
- R V Waaka
- R V Mohi
- (a) Marry OR
(b) sexual connection OR
(c) Cause to be married or have sexul connection with some other person
R V Chartrand
Without lawful justification, authority or excuse
R V Crossan
Taking away and detaining are separate and distinct offences. The first consists of taking the victim away the second of detaining them.
R V Wellard
Takes Away
The essence of the offence of kidnapping is the deprivation of liberty coupled with a carrying away from a place where the victim wants to be
R V Pryce
Detains
Detaining is an active concept meaning to keep in confindment or custody. This is to be contrasted to the passive concept of harbouring or mere failure to hand over
A person
Gender neutral proven by judicial notice or circumstantially
Consent
Consent is a persons conscious and voluntary agreement to something desired or proposed by another
Intent
Mean to do it, they desire a specific result and act with the aim or purpose of achieving it
Sexual connection
(a) Connection effected by the introduction into the vagina or anus of one person, otherwise than for genuine medical reasons of
(i) a part of the body of another person or
(ii) an object held or manipulated by another person or
(b) Connection between the mouth or tongue of one one person and a part of another persons genitalia or anus or
(c) continuation of connection of a kind described in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b)
Section 2, Crimes Act 1961
To obtain consent by fraud
Consent obtained by the misrepresentation of the facts or the offenders intentions