Elements: Rape is committed:
1. By a man who 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
d. when the offended party is under 12 years of age or is demented, even though none of the circumstances mentioned above be present.
2. By any person who, under any of the circumstances mentioned in par 1 hereof, shall commit an act of sexual assault by inserting:
a. his penis into another person’s mouth or anal orifice, or
b. any instrument or object, into the genital or anal orifice of another person.
In 2001, Victor Pearson an American veteran was arrested for 87 counts of rape in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. Allegedly he raped 8 women including minors who were at the age of 13-16 at that time. He is a decorated Vietnam War veteran who has settled in the Philippines. He is said to have converted to Islam in 1980 and married 6 times, and was divorced twice. He served his sentence in Bacolod Provincial Jail before he was transferred to National Penitentiary to serve his remaining sentence of 80 years imprisonment because the Supreme Court upheld the lower court’s decision of convicting him on two counts of rape. Few of these women cling on him because of support. Some of them even said that it is good that they married an American because he is responsible.
His story is recently featured in a documentary named “Kano: an American and his harem” made by Coreen Jimenez after studying his story for an investigative magazine. This documentary won several awards including IDFA or International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam for first appearance.
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