What is kidnapping?To seize and detain or carry away by unlawful force or fraud and often with a demand for ransom.What is illegal detention?This means to jail, cage or any manner of deprivation of liberty. As long as a person is forbidden to leave to place of detention or go anywhere he/she pleases, there is illegal detention.Ex. There is illegal detention if schoolchildren are not allowed to leave a tourist bus.2 Kinds of Illegal Detention:. !erious illegal detention or "idnapping#. !light illegal detentionWhat makes an illegal detention serious?$t will be serious %and hence, serious penalties& when'when a private individual, not any of the parents of the victim, unlawfully kidnaps or detains another, or in any mannerdepriving the latter of his liberty, and that any of the following circumstances is present:. $f the "idnapping or detention lasted more than three days.#. $f it was committed simulating public authority. %for instance, the "idnapper impersonated a police officer, etc.&(. $f any serious physical injuries was inflicted upon the person "idnapped or detained) or if threats to "ill him were made.*. $f the person "idnapped or detained shall be a minor, female or a public officer.+. $f the "idnapper was for purposes of ransom %"nown here as a ,-./0 or a "idnap1for1ransom&) and the law does not seem to re2uire re2uire ransom being actually demanded, but see slight illegal detention below.What is slight illegal detention?$t is such when'. $f it does not 2ualify as serious illegal detention above.#. $f the offender merely furnished the place of detention %unless there is a conspiracy, of course&(. $f the "idnapper offender voluntarily released the person so "idnapped or detained within three days, without having attained the purpose intended, and before the institution of criminal proceedings against him.Jurisprudence:People vs. Pickrell (G.R. G.R. No. 120409. October 23, 2003)Although the victim may have inceptually consented to go with the offender to a place but the victim is thereafter prevented, with the use of force, from leaving the place where he was brought to with his consent and is detained against his will, the offender is still guilty of kidnapping and serious illegal detention.[1