ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Children Act
141. Assisting escape, etc.
Edition: 2019-01-18 · Repealed
141. Assisting escape, etc.
Any person who knowingly—(a)assists or induces a child—(i)to run away from a fit person, a charitable children’s institution or appointed local authority to whose care the child has been committed, or from any person or institution with whom or with which he has been placed by a charitable children’s institution or an approved appointed local authority under or by virtue of this Act or any regulations made thereunder; or(ii)to do any of the things specified in section 140(2); or(b)harbours or conceals a child who has so run away or has done any such things as aforesaid; or(c)prevents such a child from returning, or induces such a child not to return, to the care of the person to whom he has been committed, or to any place in which he should be, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to a fine of fifty thousand shillings, or to both.