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Practice question: Title XI – Crimes Against Chastity

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A seventeen-year-old minor is seduced through proved deceit, with all Article338 requirements established. The defense relies only on an obsolete claim that the article ends at the old age threshold. Which text governs?
  1. No current provision can cover seventeen-year-olds
  2. Only a pre-amendment reviewer
  3. Only the offender’s preferred age band
  4. The amended sixteen-to-under-eighteen category
  5. The victim’s school year replaces age

Legal references

  • RA11648 Section2, amended RPC Articles337-338, current seduction provisions: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2022/ra_11648_2022.html

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