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How is someone taken against their will without the implicit THREAT of violence? Without the physical restraint or the threat of such one could just walk away.

Because you can use things other than the threat of violence to confine someone unlawfully.

Under Texas law, kidnapping can be accomplished by using fraud or deceit. As I read the statute, it would also cover non-violent coercion as well (a human trafficker grabs a worker's passport and refuses to give it back to them if they want to leave). And a non-trivial number of kidnappings involve family members unlawfully taking kids that they don't properly have custody of - where the child is not taken by force but by deceit and concealment.

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