State v. Walker

HEDRICK, Judge.

In North Carolina the criminal offense of child abduction is set out in G.S. 14-41 as follows:

§ 14-41. Abduction of children. — If anyone shall abduct or by any means induce any child under the age of fourteen years, who shall reside with its father, mother, ... to leave such person or school, he shall be guilty of a felony, ....

A provision found in the companion statute proscribing conspiracy to abduct children, G.S. 14-42, must be read in harmony with the preceding section: “Provided, that no one who may be a nearer blood relation to the child than the persons named in §…