Text of the provision
Art. 271. Inducing a minor to abandon his home. - The penalty of prisión correccional and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (₱100,000) shall be imposed upon anyone who shall induce a minor to abandon the home of his parents or guardians or the persons entrusted with his custody. If the person committing any of the crimes covered by the two
(2) preceding articles shall be the father or the mother of the minor, the penalty shall be arresto mayor or a fine not exceeding Forty thousand pesos (₱40,000), or both.
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Act No. 3815, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this article means
Inducing a minor to abandon the home of his parents, guardians or custodians is punished by prisión correccional and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (₱100,000). Where the offender is the child’s own father or mother, the penalty drops to arresto mayor or a fine not exceeding Forty thousand pesos (₱40,000), or both.
Questions about this provision
Related provisions
- Article 269 — Unlawful Arrest.
- Article 272 — Slavery And Immoral Traffic.
Penalty amounts. The text above is the article as amended by Republic Act No. 10951 (2017), which revised the property values and fines throughout this Code. Older reproductions of the Revised Penal Code still print the 1930 amounts — for theft and estafa they show 12,000 and 22,000 pesos where the current figures run to millions. Check which version any source you rely on is giving you.
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