(a) Any person who takes away another person, or detains another person against such person's will, with intent to marry or defile the person, or to cause the person to be married or defiled by another person; or takes away a child under the age of sixteen years from any person having lawful charge of such child, for the purpose of prostitution or concubinage, shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than three nor more than ten years.
(b) Any person, other than the father or mother, who illegally, or for any unlawful, improper or immoral purpose other than the purposes stated in subsection (a) of this section or section fourteen-a or fourteen-c of this article, seizes, take or secretes a child under sixteen years of age, from the person or persons having lawful charge of such child, shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten years.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 61. Crimes and Their Punishment
Article 2. Crimes Against the Person
§61-2-1. First and Second Degree Murder Defined; Allegations in Indictment for Homicide
§61-2-2. Penalty for Murder of First Degree
§61-2-3. Penalty for Murder of Second Degree
§61-2-4. Voluntary Manslaughter; Penalty
§61-2-5. Involuntary Manslaughter; Penalty
§61-2-5a. Concealment of Deceased Human Body; Penalty
§61-2-6. Homicide Punishable Within State if Injury Occurs Within and Death Without, or Vice Versa
§61-2-7. Attempt to Kill or Injure by Poison; Penalty
§61-2-9. Malicious or Unlawful Assault; Assault; Battery; Penalties
§61-2-9a. Harassment; Penalties; Definitions
§61-2-9b. Penalties for Malicious or Unlawful Assault or Assault of a Child Near a School
§61-2-9c. Wanton Endangerment Involving the Use of Fire; Penalty
§61-2-9d. Strangulation; Suffocation and Asphyxiation; Definitions; Penalties
§61-2-10. Assault During Commission of or Attempt to Commit a Felony; Penalty
§61-2-10a. Violent Crimes Against the Elderly; Sentence Not Subject to Suspension or Probation
§61-2-11. Unlawful Shooting at Another in Street, Alley or Public Resort; Penalty
§61-2-12. Robbery or Attempted Robbery; Penalties
§61-2-13. Extortion or Attempted Extortion by Threats; Penalties
§61-2-14. Abduction of Person; Kidnapping or Concealing Child; Penalties
§61-2-14a. Kidnapping; Penalty
§61-2-14b. Venue of Offenses Under §§61-2-14 and 61-2-14a
§61-2-14c. Penalty for Threats to Kidnap or Demand Ransom
§61-2-14f. Penalties for Abduction of a Child Near a School
§61-2-14g. Unlawful Restraint; Penalties
§61-2-14h. Prohibition of Purchase or Sale of Child; Penalty; Definitions; Exceptions
§61-2-15. Assault, Battery on School Employees; Penalties
§61-2-15a. Assault, Battery on Athletic Officials; Penalties
§61-2-16. Injury to Passenger by Person in Charge of Public Conveyance or Boat; Penalty
§61-2-26. Doors to Be Removed From Abandoned Refrigerators, Freezers and Other Appliances; Penalties
§61-2-27. Required Reporting of Gunshot and Other Wounds
§61-2-27a. Required Reporting of Burns
§61-2-28. Domestic Violence — Criminal Acts
§61-2-29. Abuse or Neglect of Incapacitated Adult; Definitions; Penalties