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    Kidnapping for ransom is defined as seizing and detaining a person unlawfully while demanding money for their release or redemption from captivity. The document outlines penalties under Philippine law for kidnapping and illegal detention. Serious offenses are punishable by reclusion perpetua (life imprisonment) to death, especially if committed for the purpose of ransom. Lesser penalties are defined for cases where the victim is released voluntarily within 3 days.

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    Kidnapping for ransom is defined as seizing and detaining a person unlawfully while demanding money for their release or redemption from captivity. The document outlines penalties under Philippine law for kidnapping and illegal detention. Serious offenses are punishable by reclusion perpetua (life imprisonment) to death, especially if committed for the purpose of ransom. Lesser penalties are defined for cases where the victim is released voluntarily within 3 days.

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    KIDNAP FOR RANSOM

    Meaning of Kidnapping.

    To seize and detain or carry away by unlawful force and often with a demand for ransom.

    Meaning of Ransom.

    Ransom is money, price, or consideration paid or demanded for redemption of a captured person or
    persons, a payment that releases from captivity.

    ART. 267. Kidnapping and serious illegal detention. – Any private individual who shall kidnap or detain
    another, or in any other manner deprive him of his liberty, shall suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua
    to death:

    1. If the kidnapping or detention shall have lasted more than three (3) days.

    2. If it shall have been committed simulating public authority.

    3. If any serious physical injuries shall have been inflicted upon the person kidnapped or detained, or if
    the threats to kill him shall have been made.

    4. If the person kidnapped or detained shall be a minor, except when the accused is any of the parents,
    female or a public officer.

    The penalty shall be reclusion perpetua to death where the kidnapping or detention was
    committed for the purpose of extorting ransom from the victim or any other person, even if none of the
    circumstances above-mentioned were present in the commission of the offense.

    When the victim is killed or dies as a consequence of the detention or is raped, or is subjected
    to torture or dehumanizing acts, the maximum penalty shall be imposed. (As amended by R.A. No. 7659
    an ACT TO IMPOSE THE DEATH PENALTY ON CERTAIN HEINOUS CRIMES AMENDING FOR THAT PURPOSE
    THE REVISED PENAL CODE, AS AMENDED, OTHER SPECIAL PENAL LAWS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES).

    ART. 268. Slight illegal detention. – The penalty of reclusion temporal shall be imposed upon any
    private individual who shall commit the crimes described in the next preceding article without the
    attendance of any of the circumstances enumerated therein.

    The same penalty shall be incurred by anyone who shall furnish the place for the perpetration of
    the crime.

    If the offender shall voluntarily release the person so kidnapped or detained within three days
    from the commencement of the detention, without having attained the purpose intended, and before
    the institution of criminal proceedings against him, the penalty shall be prision mayor in its minimum
    and medium periods and a fine not exceeding seven hundred pesos. (As amended by R.A. No. 18.)
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    ART.269. Unlawful arrest. – The penalty of arresto mayor and a fine not exceeding 500 pesos shall be
    imposed upon any person who, in any case other than those authorized by law, or without reasonable
    ground therefor, shall arrest or detain another for the purpose of delivering him to the proper
    authorities.

    ART.270. Kidnapping and failure to return a minor. – The penalty of reclusion perpetua shall be imposed
    upon any person who, being entrusted with the custody of a minor person, shall deliberately fail to
    restore the latter to his parents or guardians. (As amended by R.A. No. 18.)

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