Teaching Strategy (Chunking)

By: Sol Erwin Diaz, Ph.D.-1

CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY

Adultery and Concubinage (Art. 333 and 334); Acts of lasciviousness (Art. 336); Qualified seduction (Art. 337); Simple seduction (Art. 338); Acts of lasciviousness with the consent of the offended party (Art. 339); Corruption of minors (Art. 340); White slave trade (Art. 341); Forcible abduction (Art. 342); Consented abduction (Art. 343).

Art. 333. Who are guilty of adultery.

Adultery is committed by any married woman who shall have sexual intercourse with a man not her husband and by the man who has carnal knowledge of her knowing her to be married, even if the marriage be subsequently declared void. Adultery shall be punished by prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods. If the person guilty of adultery committed this offense while being abandoned without justification by the offended spouse, the penalty next lower in degree than that provided in the next preceding paragraph shall be imposed.

ELEMENTS:
That the woman is married (even if marriage subsequently declared void) That she has sexual intercourse with a man not her husband. That as regards the man with whom she has sexual intercourses, he must know her to be married.

Example
Madame X is a married woman residing in Iligan City. He met a man, Y, at Roxas Avenue. She agreed to go with Y to CDO, supposedly to come back the next day. When they were in Initao, they stayed in a motel, having sexual intercourse there. After that, they proceeded again and stopped at Opol, where they went to a motel and had sexual intercourse. There are two counts of adultery committed in this instance: one adultery in Bulacan, and another adultery in Dagupan City. Even if it involves the same man, each intercourse is a separate crime of adultery.

Art. 334. Concubinage.

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, shall be punished by prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods. The concubine shall suffer the penalty of destierro.

ELEMENTS:
That the man must be married. That he committed any of the following acts:
Keeping a mistress in the conjugal dwelling. Having sexual intercourse under scandalous circumstances with a woman who is not his wife. Cohabiting with her in any other place.

That as regards the woman she must know him to be married.

 Scandal consists in any reprehensible word/deed that offends public conscience, redounds to the detriment of the feelings of honest persons and gives occasions to the neighbors spiritual damage and ruin

Art. 336. Acts of lasciviousness.

Any person who shall commit any act of lasciviousness upon other persons of either sex, under any of the circumstances mentioned in the preceding article, shall be punished by prision correccional.

ELEMENTS:
That the offender commits any act of lasciviousness or lewdness. That it is done under any of the following circumstances:
by using force or intimidation, or when the offended party is deprived of reason or otherwise unconscious, or when the offended party is under 12 years of age.

That the offended party is another person of either sex.

 This crime (Art. 336) can be committed by either sex unlike in Acts of Lasciviousness with Consent under Article 339. Thus, a lesbian who toyed with the private part of an eleven-year-old girl who enjoyed it since she was given $50 dollars before the act, is guilty of Act of Lasciviousness under this Article as the victim is below twelve year old; and had sexual intercourse been possible and done, the act would have been Rape.

Assignment:
Prepare a one digested case of each of the following: 1. Simple seduction 2. Qualified seduction 3. Corruption of minors

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