Civil Code (Cap. 16)
Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 128E
128E. A person who uses or threatens to use any force or
restraint or injures or threaten s to injure, or causes or threa tens to
cause anything to the detriment of a parent of a child with the
intention of:
(a) inducing a parent to offer or refrain from offering the
child for adoption;
(b) influencing a parent on whether or not to consent to
the adoption,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liab le to
imprisonment for a term of not less than three months but not
exceeding six months or to a fine ( multa ) of not less than one
thousand and one hundred and sixty-four euro and sixty-nine cen ts
(1,164.69) but not more than two thousand and three hundred and
twenty-nine euro and thirty-se ven cents (2,329.37), or to both.
Removal of child.
Added by:
IV .2008.41.
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