The Senate Committees have approved the proposal to increase the statutory rape age to 16. The Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights and the Senate Committee on Women, Children,...
Close to five proposed bills had been filed in the Senate that seek to amend the age covered under statutory rape in the Philippines. Under the Anti-Rape Law of 1997,...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday assured it is now working with Kuwaiti authorities for the arrest of a police officer accused of raping a Filipina worker in...
MANILA, Philippines — A police officer accused of raping the 15-year old daughter of a drug suspect in Sampaloc, Manila, has been slapped with criminal and administrative charges. Philippine...
Police were patrolling Payatas Road, Thursday at dawn when they came across a half-naked woman shouting frantically for help. The policemen quickly responded and learned that the woman...
The arrest of a suspect known only as alias Jepoy,turned fatal after he engaged police in a gunfight at Phase 3, Bagong Silang, Caloocan City, Monday night. Caloocan City Police...
Crime rate in the Philippines may have gone down by 20 percent in two years that President Rodrigo Duterte has been in office, but his hometown Davao City recorded the...
Melvin Altubar,22, and his 16-year old accomplice were arrested on Wednesday, August 15 for the rape and slay of a 15-year-old girl in Pulilan, Bulacan. Based on initial investigation...
Thousands of people have been protesting across Spain, after a court acquitted five men of rape charges for an attack on a young woman during a bull-running festival. Angry demonstrators...
A self-styled Indian spiritual guru who claims millions of followers worldwide has been given a life sentence for raping a 16-year-old girl. Asaram Bapu was convicted of the 2013 attack...
