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Jan 28, 2003 criminal-law rape acts-of-lasciviousness standard-of-proof supreme-court philippines

Incestuous Rape: The Standard of Proof for Multiple Charges in the Philippines

A Supreme Court ruling clarifies that finger insertion and licking do not constitute rape under the old law, but may be acts of lasciviousness.