Anti-VAWC: Punishable Acts and Remedies

Q : What are examples of punishable acts?

A : Forms of abuse are categorized as:

1. Economic abuse:

a) not giving adequate financial support to the wife and/or minor children,

b) Controlling the conjugal business or conjugal or community property or the woman’s own money.

2. Psychological violence:

a) Marital infidelity

b) Repeated verbal abuse

c) Public humiliation

d) Threatening the woman that she will lose her child

e) Stalking or following the woman in her work-place, school or any public or private place without justification

3. Physical abuse:

a) battery (physical injuries)

b) frustrated parricide

4.Sexual violence:

a) Causing or attempting to make the woman or her child to perform sexual acts (that do not constitute rape) by use of force, threats, intimidation directed against the woman, her child, or her immediate family b) Prostituting the woman or her child.

Q : What does “public crime” mean?

A : Public crime is a public offense which may be prosecuted upon the filing of a complaint by any citizen having personal knowledge of the circumstances involving the commission of the crime.

 

Anti-VAWC Act: Punishable Acts and Remedies

Q : What are the remedies of the victim?

A : She and/or her children can request for:

a) Barangay Protection Order (BPO);

b) Temporary Protection Order (TPO);

c) Permanent Protection Order (PPO) with the court; and

d) File a criminal action for violation of R.A. 9262.