Cal Pen Code § 207 (2004)
§ 207. Kidnapping defined
(a) Every person who forcibly, or by any other means of instilling
fear, steals or takes, or holds, detains, or arrests any person in this state,
and carries the person into another country, state, or county, or into another
part of the same county, is guilty of kidnapping.
(b) Every person, who for the purpose of committing any act
defined in Section 288, hires, persuades, entices, decoys, or seduces by false
promises, misrepresentations, or the like, any child under the age of 14 years
to go out of this country, state, or county, or into another part of the same
county, is guilty of kidnapping.
(c) Every person who forcibly, or by any other means of
instilling fear, takes or holds, detains, or arrests any person, with a design
to take the person out of this state, without having established a claim,
according to the laws of the United States, or of this state, or who hires,
persuades, entices, decoys, or seduces by false promises, misrepresentations,
or the like, any person to go out of this state, or to be taken or removed
therefrom, for the purpose and with the intent to sell that person into slavery
or involuntary servitude, or otherwise to employ that person for his or her own
use, or to the use of another, without the free will and consent of that
persuaded person, is guilty of kidnapping.
(d) Every person who, being out of this state, abducts or
takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that
act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits
of this state, and is afterwards found within the limits thereof, is guilty of
kidnapping.
(e) For purposes of those types of kidnapping requiring
force, the amount of force required to kidnap an unresisting infant or child is
the amount of physical force required to take and carry the child away a
substantial distance for an illegal purpose or with an illegal intent.
(f) Subdivisions (a) to (d), inclusive, do not apply to any of
the following:
(1) To any person who steals, takes, entices away, detains,
conceals, or harbors any child under the age of 14 years, if that act is taken
to protect the child from danger of imminent harm.
(2) To any person acting under Section 834 or 837.