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–457– (2) forcibly takes or arrests a person with a design to take him out of the Canal Zone without having established a claim according to the laws of the Canal Zone or of the United States applicable in the Canal Zone; or (3) by false promises, misrepresentations, or the like, hires, persuades, entices, decoys, or seduces a person to go out of the Canal Zone or to be taken or removed therefrom with the intent to sell the person into slavery or involuntary servitude or otherwise to employ the person for his own use or for the use of another, without the free will and consent of the persuaded person, or unlawfully to deprive the person of his liberty— is guilty of kidnaping, and, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than 25 years. (b) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of this section do not apply to a person who commits an act described therein upon his own minor child, § 1312. Kidnaping for ransom, extortion, or robbery; bodily harm; conspiracy (a) Whoever: (1) steals, seizes, takes, confines, inveigles, entices, decoys, abducts, conceals, kidnaps, moves or carries away a person, by any means whatsoever, with intent to hold or detain him, or holds or detains him, for ransom or reward or for the purpose of committing extortion or of exacting money or other valuable thing from his relatives, friends or any other person; or (2) kidnaps or carries away a person for the purpose of committing robbery— shall be punished by death if the kidnaped person has not been liberated unharmed, and if the jury so recommends, or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for any term of years or for life, if the death penalty is not imposed. (b) If two or more persons conspire to violate subsection (a) of this section, and one or more of them do any overt act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the conspirators shall be punished as provided in subsection (a) of this section. § 1313. Extortion by posing as kidnaper or by claiming ability to obtain release of victim (a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining a ransom or reward, or with the intent to extort or exact from a person any money or thing of value, poses as, or in any manner represents himself to be, a person: (1) who has stolen, seized, taken, confined, inveigled, enticed, decoyed, abducted, concealed, kidnaped, moved or carried away another person, or who holds or detains him, or who has aided or abetted in any such act; or (2) who has the influence, power, or ability to obtain the release of a person who has been stolen, seized, taken, confined, inveigled, enticed, decoyed, abducted, concealed, kidnaped, moved or carried away— shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for any term of years or for life. (b) Subsection (a) of this section does not prohibit a person who, in good faith, believes that he caar rescue a person upon whom an act specified by section 1312(a)(1) of this title has been committed, and who has had no part in, or connection with, the commission thereof, from offering to rescue or obtain the release of the victim for a monetary consideration or other thing of value.