her/his family;
(2)
Depriving or threatening to deprive the woman or her children of financial support legally due
her or her family, or deliberately providing the woman's children insufficient financial
support;
(3)
Depriving or threatening to deprive the woman or her child of a legal right;
(4)
Preventing the woman in engaging in any legitimate profession, occupation, business or
activity or controlling the victim's own money or properties, or solely controlling the conjugal
or common money, or properties;
(f)
Inflicting or threatening to inflict physical harm on oneself for the purpose of controlling her
actions or decisions;
(g)
Causing or attempting to cause the woman or her child to engage in any sexual activity which does
not constitute rape, by force or threat of force, physical harm, or through intimidation directed
against the woman or her child or her/his immediate family;
(h) Engaging in purposeful, knowing, or reckless conduct, personally or through another, that alarms
or causes substantial emotional or psychological distress to the woman or her child. This shall
include, but not be limited to, the following acts:
(i)
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(1)
Stalking or following the woman or her child in public or private places;
(2)
Peering in the window or lingering outside the residence of the woman or her child;
(3)
Entering or remaining in the dwelling or on the property of the woman or her child against
her/his will;
(4)
Destroying the property and personal belongings or inflicting harm to animals or pets of the
woman or her child; and
(5)
Engaging in any form of harassment or violence;
Causing mental or emotional anguish, public ridicule or humiliation to the woman or her child,
including, but not limited to, repeated verbal and emotional abuse, and denial of financial support
or custody of minor children or denial of access to the woman's child/children.
Republic Act No. 9262, sec. 6 provides:
Section. 6. Penalties. — The crime of violence against women and their children, under Section 5 hereof shall be
punished according to the following rules:
(a) Acts falling under Section 5(a) constituting attempted, frustrated or consummated parricide or murder or homicide
shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Penal Code. If these acts resulted in mutilation, it
shall be punishable in accordance with the Revised Penal Code; those constituting serious physical injuries shall
have the penalty of prision mayor; those constituting less serious physical injuries shall be punished by prision
correccional; and those constituting slight physical injuries shall be punished by arresto mayor.
Acts falling under Section 5(b) shall be punished by imprisonment of two (2) degrees lower than the prescribed
penalty for the consummated crime as specified in the preceding paragraph but shall in no case be lower than arresto
mayor.
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