Ra 9262 Barangay Procedure
Primer
Republic Act. No. 9262
ANTI-VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN ACT OF 2004
Q: What is the Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of 2004 (Anti-VAWC Act)?
A. It is the law penalizing acts of violence against women and their children as a public crime. These acts include physical violence, sexual violence, psychological violence and economic abuse
These acts are punishable even if committed outside the house.
Q: What is violence against women and their children or “VAWC” under the law?
A: this refers to any act or a series of acts committed by any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or against a woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationships, or with whom he has a common child, or against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, inside or outside the family residence, which result or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or economic abuse.
It includes threats of the above acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
Q: Who are protected by the law?
A: Women and their children.
“Children” means the children of the abused woman, below 18 years old, legitimate or illegitimate, or 18 years old and above who are incapable of taking care of themselves, including children who are not her biological children but who are under her care.
If the acts are committed in the presence of the woman’s child, or if the woman or child is pregnant, the penalty shall be the maximum period prescribed by law.
Example: the woman’s niece who lives with her is a child under her care.
Q: Who are liable?
A: husbands, former husbands, present and former boyfriends or live-in partners, those with whom the woman has a common child, or anyone with whom she has/had sexual or dating relationship.
Women can also be liable under “sexual or dating relationship.” These are the lesbian partners
Republic Act. No. 9262
ANTI-VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN ACT OF 2004
Q: What is the Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of 2004 (Anti-VAWC Act)?
A. It is the law penalizing acts of violence against women and their children as a public crime. These acts include physical violence, sexual violence, psychological violence and economic abuse
These acts are punishable even if committed outside the house.
Q: What is violence against women and their children or “VAWC” under the law?
A: this refers to any act or a series of acts committed by any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or against a woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationships, or with whom he has a common child, or against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, inside or outside the family residence, which result or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or economic abuse.
It includes threats of the above acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
Q: Who are protected by the law?
A: Women and their children.
“Children” means the children of the abused woman, below 18 years old, legitimate or illegitimate, or 18 years old and above who are incapable of taking care of themselves, including children who are not her biological children but who are under her care.
If the acts are committed in the presence of the woman’s child, or if the woman or child is pregnant, the penalty shall be the maximum period prescribed by law.
Example: the woman’s niece who lives with her is a child under her care.
Q: Who are liable?
A: husbands, former husbands, present and former boyfriends or live-in partners, those with whom the woman has a common child, or anyone with whom she has/had sexual or dating relationship.
Women can also be liable under “sexual or dating relationship.” These are the lesbian partners