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Mar 12, 2014 criminal-law rape revised-penal-code mental-disability supreme-court vulnerable-victims

Protecting the Vulnerable: Rape of a Person Deprived of Reason

The Supreme Court affirms the rape conviction of a man who sexually abused a mentally deficient minor, clarifying the distinction between "demented" and "deprived of reason" under the Revised Penal Co