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Sexual crimes
1. Rape A. is committed by a man who shall have carnal knowledge of a woman under any
of the following circumstances:
a. Through force, threat, or intimidation;
b. When the offended party is deprived of reason or otherwise unconscious;
c. By means of fraudulent machination or grave abuse of authority; and
d. When the offended party is under twelve (12) years of age or is demented, even though
none of the circumstances mentioned above be present.
B. by any person who, under any of the circumstance in para 1 hereof, shall commit an
act of sexual assault by inserting his penis into another persons mouth or anal orifice, or
any instrument or object, into the genital or anal orifice of another person.
2. Seduction consented sexual intercourse by a virgin who must be over 12 years but not
over 18 years through abuse of authority or deceit
a. Qualified seduction committed in the excess of power or abuse of confidence
b. Incestuous qualified seduction abuse of relationship such as by brothers or
ascendants
c. Simple seduction committed by means of deceit
3. Acts of lasciviousness - (1) that the offender commits any act of lasciviousness or
lewdness; (2) that it is done: (a) by using force and intimidation or (b) when the offended
party is deprived of reason or otherwise unconscious, or (c) when the offended party is
under 12 years of age; and (3) that the offended party is another person of either sex.
[T]he intentional touching, either directly or through clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin,
breast, inner thigh, or buttocks, or the introduction of any object into the genitalia, anus or
mouth, of any person, whether of the same or opposite sex, with an intent to abuse,
humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person, bestiality,
masturbation, lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a person.
4. Abduction - The person kidnapped must be a woman; It must be against her will; The
abduction must be for lewd or unchaste designs.
a. Forcible abduction abduction of any woman against her will and with lewd design.
b. Consented abduction the abduction of a virgin over 12 and under 18 years of age,
carried out with consent and with lewd designs.
5. Adultery - the carnal relation between a married woman and a man who is not her husband,
the latter knowing her to be married, even if the marriage be subsequently declared void.
Each sexual intercourse constitutes a crime of adultery.
6. Concubinage - is committed by any husband who shall keep a mistress in the conjugal
dwelling, or, shall have sexual intercourse, under scandalous circumstances, with a woman
who is not his wife, or shall cohabit with her in any other place.
7. Prostitution - any act, transaction, scheme or design involving the use of a person by
another, for sexual intercourse or lascivious conduct in exchange for money, profit or any
other consideration.
8. Corruption of minors - Any person who shall promote or facilitate the prostitution or
corruption of persons underage to satisfy the lust of another, shall be punished by prision
mayor, and if the culprit is a public officer or employee, including those in governmentowned or controlled corporations, he shall also suffer the penalty of temporary absolute
disqualification.
9. White slave trade - any person who, in any manner, or under any pretext, shall engage in
the business or shall profit by prostitution or shall enlist the services of any other person for
the purpose of prostitution.
Sexual abnormalities
1. Heterosexual - sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.
2. Homosexual - sexually attracted to people of one's own sex.
a. Overt - Homosexual tendencies that are consciously recognized and expressed through
behavior.
14. Frottage sexual pleasure obtained by and seems to be due to persistence of the infantile
love of being cuddled and rubbed.
15. Partialism sexual interest with an exclusive focus on a specific part of the body other than
the genitals
16. Voyeurism practice of obtaining sexual gratification by looking at sexual objects or acts,
especially secretively
17. Mixoscopia (scotophilia) obtaining sexual pleasure by looking at other peoples genital
organs
18. Troilism (mnage a tois) three people having sexual relations with each other occupy the
same household.
19. Pluralism
20. Coprolalia utterance of obscene words for sexual pleasure.
21. Indecent exposure
22. Transvestism deriving sexual gratification from dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex.
23. Transexualism wish to change ones sex
24. Intersesuality a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesnt seem to
fit the typical definitions of female or male.
Medico-legal aspects of injuries:
Due to heat, cold, and electricity
Injury due to heat
- Any excess of temperature over 50 degrees centigrade can cause damage to living
tissue.
1. Dry heat burn
2. Moist heat scalding
3. Erythema and blistering is caused and there is fluid
Burns
1. Dry burns are classified by severity and extent:
a. First degree erythema and blistering (vesiculation)
b. Second degree burning of the whole thickness of the epidermis and exposure of the
dermis.
c. Third degree destruction down to the dermal tissues, sometimes with carbonization
and exposure of muscles and bones.
Estimating the extent of injury
- Rule of nine is used to calculate the approximate extent on the body surface.
- The area of burning may be more dangerous to life than depth.
- If the area exceeds 50% the prognosis is very poor.
- Old people may die only with 20% burns.
Causes of death in burns
1. Rapid death
- Actual destructive effects of heat
Asphyxia
Shock due to pain
Inhalation of hot gas burning the interior of air passage
Carbon monoxide toxicity and other noxious gas
2. Delayed death
- Dehydration
- Electrolyte imbalance
- Renal failure
- Toxemia from substances absorbed from the burned area
- Infection
3. Placental insufficiency
4. Intra urine infection
5. Congenital defects
Infanticide killing of a child less than 3 days old
Child abuse syndrome physical, mental, and sexual abuse of children by parents or guardian.
Child abuse is also called child or baby battering or non-accidental injury
Features:
- Infants can be of any age
- Most fatalities under 2 years
- Any social class
- Lower middle class most at risk
- Lesions are in the skin and skeleton
Child sexual abuse involvement of dependent develop mentally immature children and
adolescents in sexual activities they do not truly comprehend, to which they are unable to give
informed consent.
Sudden death of infant syndrome (SIDS) crib death or cot death
Features:
1. Takes place between 1-7 month with a peak at 2-3 months
2. Slight predominance in male
3. Incidence is markedly greater in one of a twin pair whether identical or not
4. Seasonal variation in zone, more on colder
5. Higher risk in disadvantageous families.
Physical abuse or human rights torture
1. Skin with redness, swelling, intradermal bruising, subcutaneous bruising
2. Double slavery line
3. Where skin is lacerated
4. Falanga (feet are beaten by a thin rod)
5. Burns from hot irons
6. Cutting and piercing
7. Electric torture
8. Damage to ears
9. Suffocation
Alcohol abuse
Effects:
30-50 % - impairment of driving and similar skills
50-100% - reduced inhibitions, talkativeness, laughter, slight sensory disturbance
100-150% - in coordination, unsteadiness, slurred speech
150-200% - obvious drunkenness, nausea and ataxia
200-300% - vomiting, stupor, possibly coma
300-350% - danger of apirating vomit, stupor or coma
Over 350% - progressive danger of death from respiratory paralysis
Symptomatic changes after ingestion of alcohol
-stage of excitement
-stage of confusion or in coordination
-stage of narcosis or coma