Domestic Violence Kidnapping is charged in Fort Collins and Larimer County when a person is accused of moving a person with whom they have been in an intimate relationship without consent. A man was recently charged with this crime after he got angry at his girlfriend for not leaving with him. According to the report, witnesses claim that the man demanded that his girlfriend leave with him while they were with her friend to buy a car. When the girlfriend refused to leave, the man grabbed her and began dragging her toward the woods nearby. The friend’s boyfriend arrived and was told what happened. He went into the woods and intervene, getting the man away from his girlfriend. Law enforcement arrived and the man was charged with Domestic Violence Kidnapping along with various other charges.
Larimer County Domestic Violence Kidnapping Lawyer: Definition of Second Degree Kidnapping in Colorado
The Colorado law definition of Second Degree Kidnapping – C.R.S. 18-3-302 – is:
(2) Any person who takes, entices, or decoys away any child not his own under the age of eighteen years with intent to keep or conceal the child from his parent or guardian or with intent to sell, trade, or barter such child for consideration commits second degree kidnapping.
There is no set length that you must move a person without their consent in order to be charged with this crime. It could be 2 inches or 2 miles – if the person is moved and they don’t consent to it, it’s charged as Kidnapping.
Sentence for Domestic Violence Kidnapping in Loveland and Estes Park
In Fort Collins, Loveland, and Estes Park, Second Degree Kidnapping is a class 4 felony unless it is an aggravated case. Kidnapping is a class 2 felony if:
- The person kidnapped is a victim of a sexual offense pursuant to part 4 of this article; or
- The person kidnapped is a victim of a robbery.
It can also be charged as a class 3 felony if:
- The kidnapping is accomplished with intent to sell, trade, or barter the victim for consideration; or
- The kidnapping is accomplished by the use of a deadly weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a deadly weapon; or
- The kidnapping is accomplished by the perpetrator representing verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a deadly weapon.
Based on the information provided above, the man would likely be facing the class 4 felony charge.