Especially Aggravated Kidnapping

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Criminal Offenses
4. Offenses Against Person
5. Kidnapping and False Imprisonment
6. Especially Aggravated Kidnapping

1. Especially aggravated kidnapping is false imprisonment, as defined in § 39-13-302:
   1. Accomplished with a deadly weapon or by display of any article used or fashioned to lead the victim to reasonably believe it to be a deadly weapon;
   2. Where the victim was under the age of thirteen (13) at the time of the removal or confinement;
   3. Committed to hold the victim for ransom or reward, or as a shield or hostage; or
   4. Where the victim suffers serious bodily injury.
2. 1. Especially aggravated kidnapping is a Class A felony.
   2. If the offender voluntarily releases the victim alive or voluntarily provides information leading to the victim's safe release, such actions shall be considered by the court as a mitigating factor at the time of sentencing.

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