VAWC - Anti-violence Against Women and Their Children(RA 9262) by John Rassel Delara

delarajohnrassel — 2024-08-21 13:49:08 UTC

RA 9262 acknowledges that women who have retaliated against their partner or who commit violence as a form of self-defense may have suffered from Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS). Any victim who suffers from BWS should be diagnosed by a Psychiatric expert or a clinical psychologist. This will also help the victim in obtaining a just decision in her case. The law does not allow the offender to have custody of minor children. Their care is entrusted to the woman even if she is found to have BWS.

delarajohnrassel — 2024-08-21 13:51:11 UTC

It refers to any act or a series of acts committed by an intimate partner (husband, ex-husband, live-in partner, boyfriend/girlfriend, fiance, who the woman had sexual/dating relationship):

against a woman who is his wife, former wife;
against a woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationship,
against a women with whom he has a common child;
against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate within or without the family abode,

Of which results in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering or economic abuse including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.

delarajohnrassel — 2024-08-21 13:51:43 UTC