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Kidnapping? Or child trafficking?

Posted by reposter on March 10, 2005 at 22:50:58

A while ago there was a discussion about whether one mate grabbing a child(ren) & running & hiding from the other mate who was not in The Family, was kidnapping or what. This definition might help:

Definition of Child Trafficking

The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of deception, of the abuse of power or of position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

(The UN ODCCP Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children)