THEMATIC OUTPUT QUARTER

 RA 8353 (The Anti-Rape Law of 1997)

Anyone can be a rape victim, but the commonly victims of rape is more rampant in women. If a rape violates a person's well being and not just ones virginity of purity, the law considers that any person may be victimized by rape, whether a prostituted person, non-virgin or a person who has an active life. If a person have sexual intercourse with another person under any of the circumstances: through force or threat; through fraudulent machination or grave abuse of authority; and when the victim is under 12 years of age, even if none of the violation circumstances presented.

Anyone who has knowledge or the victim of the crime may file a case, but make sure that the evidence is safe and intact. This would help should the victim decides to file a case.To help someone who is raped, advise him/her to seek the help of a counselor or a therapist who is an expert in handling cases of sexual abuse, support the victim along the way when she decides to file a case, and especially coordinate with people who can assist or support the victim all throughout.

The penalty varies depending on the act itself and the circumstances surrounding it. Reclusion Perpetua (Imprisonment from 20 to 40 years) is imposed on the offender if rape is committed through sexual intercourse. Prision Mayor (Imprisonment from 6 to 12 years) is imposed on the offender if rape was committed through oral or anal sex or through the use of any object or instrument that was inserted into the mouth or anal orifice of the woman or a man.This may also be elevated to Reclusion Temporal (Imprisonment from 12 to 20 years) or Reclusion Perpetua depending on the circumstances surrounding the crime.

RA 7877 (Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995)

Sexual Harassment  is committed by any person who having authority, influence or moral ascendancy over another in a work or training or education, demands, requests or otherwise requires any sexual favor from the other, regardless of whether the demand, request or requirement for submission is accepted or not by the object of said act.

To prevent the occurrence of sexual harassment acts and to provide the procedures for the resolution, and the settlement of sexual harassment in work and educational related. The head shall inform and promulgate appropriate rules and regulations in consultation. The said rules and regulations shall prescribe the procedures for the investigation of sexual harassment cases.

Any person who violates the provisions of the law shall be penalized by imprisonment of not less than one (1) month nor more than six (6) months, or a fine of not less than Ten Thousand Pesos (P10,000) nor more than Twenty Thousand Pesos (P20,000), or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. And any act arising from the violation of the provisions of this Act shall prescribe in three (3) years.

References:

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The Anti-Rape Law of 1997 and Rape Victim Assistance and Protection Act of 1998, NCRFW.

Republic Act 7877 or the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995. 

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