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    This document defines and provides examples of the aggravating circumstance of ignominy under Philippine law. It defines ignominy as a circumstance that adds disgrace and obloquy to the material injury caused by a crime. Examples provided include rape committed in additional humiliating ways or in front of others. The means employed or circumstances must tend to increase humiliation or shame of the victim. Ignominy does not apply if the victim was already dead or prostrate when additional acts were committed.

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    Ignominy: Definition; Aggravating

    Circumstance
    Book 1- General Provisions

    inShare
    Article 15, Paragraph 17- Aggravating Circumstances

    That means be employed or


    circumstances brought about which add
    ignominy to the natural effects of the
    act.
    Basis – has reference to the means employed

    Ignominy
    - A circumstance pertaining to the moral order, which adds disgrace and obloquy to the material
    injury caused by the crime.
    o A married woman is raped in the presence of her husband/betrothed
    o A woman was raped by four men
    o The accused used not only the missionary position, but also sexual intercourse of entry from
    behind
    o Compelling an old woman to confess to theft of clothes, maltreating thereafter and taking off
    her drawers (no other purpose but to put the woman to shame)

    Applicable to:
    - Crimes against chastity
    - Less serious physical injuries
    - Light or grave coercion
    - Murder

    “That means be employed”


    - The accused raped a woman after winding cogon grass around his genital organ. The wrong
    done was augmented by increasing its pain and adding ignominy thereto. (People v Torrefiel)

    “Which add ignominy to the natural


    effects of the act”
    - The means employed or the circumstances brought about must tend to make the effects of the
    crime more humiliating or to put offended party to shame

    When there is no ignominy


    - The victim was already dead when his body was dismembered (People v Carmina)
    - The assailant fired more shots at the prostrate bodies of his victims (People v Pantoja)
    - A man is killed in the presence of his wife. No means was employed nor did any circumstance
    surround the act tending to make the effects of the crime more humiliating (US v Abaigar)

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