Section 312 bis.- If the commission of the offence according to Section 310-2 or Section 312 is committed to the child not exceeding fifteen years of age, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of three to ten years and fined not exceeding twenty thousand Baht.

If the commission of the offence according to the first paragraph or Section 310 bis or Section 312 causes :

(1) Bodily harm or mental harm to the victim, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of five to fifteen years and fined not exceeding thirty thousand Baht ;

(2) Grievous bodily harm to the victim, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment for life or imprisonment of seven to twenty years ;

(3) Death to the victim, the offender shall be punished with death, imprisonment for life or imprisonment of fifteen to twenty years.

 

Section 312 ter.- Whoever, by dishonestly, accepting, disposing, procuring, seducing, or taking away the person over fifteen years but not yet over eighteen years of age by such person's consent, shall be imprisoned not out of five years or fined not out of ten thousand Baht, or both.

If the committing the offence according to paragraph 1 committed to the child not yet out of fifteen years of age, such offender shall be not out of seven years or fined not out of fourteen thousand Baht, or both.

 

Section 313.- Whoever, in order to obtain a ransom :

(1) Takes away a child not yet over fifteen years of age ;

(2) Takes away a person over fifteen years of age by using deceitful means, threat, doing any act of violence, unjust influence or mode of coercion by any other means ; or

(3) Restrains or detains any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of fifteen to twenty years and fined of thirty thousand to forty thousand Baht, or imprisonment for life, or death.

If the commission of the offence according to the first paragraph causes grievous bodily harm to such person taken away, restrained or detained, or is by acts of torture or hardly cruelty so as to cause bodily harm or mental harm to such person, the offender shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life.

If the commission of such offence causes death to the person taken away, restrained or detained, the offender shall be punished with death.

 

Section 314.- Whoever, to be a supporter to the commission of the offence according to Section 313, shall be liable to the same punishment as a principal in such offence.

 

Section 315.- Whoever act as the intermediary person to demanding, accepting or agreeing to accept any property or benefit to which not to be entitled from the offender under Section 313 or from the person who will give the ransom, shall be imprisoned as from fifteen years to twenty years and fined as from thirty thousand Baht to forty thousand Baht, or life imprisonment.

 

Section 316.- If the offender according to Section 313, Section 314 or Section 315 arranges for the person who is taken away, restrained or confined to regain his liberty before the judgment of the Court of First Instance without receiving grievous bodily harm or being in the condition of imminent danger to life, such offender shall be inflicted with less punishment than that provided by the law, but not less than one-half.